#Tiny bj software#

He gave two TEDx talks on this and related topics. In December 2011, Fogg developed a method to develop habits from baby steps, which he calls 'Tiny Habits'. Prompts are also referred to as triggers. Ability can be impacted by time, money, physical effort, brain cycles, social deviance, and non-routine. Motivation can be influenced by factors like pleasure/pain, hope/fear, and social acceptance/rejection. The FBM describes three conditions needed for a behavior to occur: (1) motivation (2) ability and (3) a prompt. He published the Fogg Behavior Model (FBM), a model for analyzing and designing human behavior. In 2009, Fogg's interests gradually shifted from persuasive technology to general human behavior. The New York Times quoted Fogg as referring to it as 'a period of time when you could walk in and collect gold.' In 2007, Fogg co-taught a Stanford course about Facebook Apps with Dave McClure, where students used persuasive design to create Facebook apps that amassed millions of users during the 10-week course. In 2006, Fogg and some of his students created a video for consideration by the FTC about persuasive technology.

#Tiny bj software#

In it, he discusses the implications of macrosuasion and microsuasion-terms he uses to define and describe the persuasive intent of a product, providing examples across the web, in video games, and other software products. This book provided a foundation for captology, the study of Computers As Persuasive Technologies. In 2003, Fogg published the book, Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do. In 1999, he was the guest editor for an issue of ACM focusing on persuasive technologies. In 1998, Fogg published a peer-reviewed paper, Persuasive Computers: Perspectives and Research Directions, which included a section that 'proposes ethical responsibilities for designers of persuasive computers and captology researchers, and discusses the importance of educating about persuasion.' His Masters thesis, 'Terms of Address Among Latter-Day Saints' and 'Names Mormons Use for Jesus: Contexts and Trends' were both published by the Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium in February 1990 and March 1991, respectively. Career įrom 1992 to 1993, Fogg was 'one of the founders of the Student Review, Brigham Young University's independent student newspaper' and 'taught English and design at BYU.' While at BYU, Fogg published eight short stories and poems in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Sunstone, 'a quarterly journal of Mormon experience, scholarship, issues, and art' and other Mormon-affiliated publications. He earned a second Masters and a PhD in Communications from Stanford, where he served as a teaching assistant to Philip Zimbardo. Fogg has a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English from Brigham Young University. At the age of eighteen, Fogg went to Peru for a two-year mission. He later grew up in Fresno, California, where he was raised in a Mormon family with six siblings. Education įogg was born in 1963 in Dallas. He is the founder and director of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab, formerly known as the Persuasive Technology Lab. Captology (Persuasive Technology), Behavior Designīrian Jeffrey Fogg (born August 7, 1963) is an American social scientist and author who is a research associate and adjunct professor at Stanford University.