MIT IAP course invitation: Socially Influencing Systems (SIS) for Improved Urban Mobility

[Agnis Stibe]

You are very welcome to participate in the course and to disseminate this invitation!
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MIT IAP 2015 non-credit course 
Socially Influencing Systems (SIS) for Improved Urban Mobility

Do I want to shape my behavior? Or influence behaviors or other people? 

Have you ever thought of changing something in your behavior or influencing what others think or do? Has your experience been successful so far? If you’d like to have more success, then you are welcome to take this course to practice and learn about shaping human behaviors.

This highly interactive course combines an extensive body of knowledge from social psychology – focusing on social influence, behavioral change, persuasion, and hands-on development of socially influencing systems for urban mobility in modern cities. 

The course explains the role of persuasive technologies and their applications to various problem domains, such as mobility, health and wellbeing, energy conservation and efficiency, safety, education, etc. Each session will delve into practical design issues through interactive presentations and collaborative work. The course will address the following questions:

•	How can I design technologies to influence what people think and do?
•	How can people be persuaded to increase their bicycling behavior?
•	What kind of socially influencing systems has greater potential to shift people’s attitudes and behavior?
•	How can these systems improve city living and other aspects of modern times?

Instructors
Dr. Agnis Stibe – Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Media Lab: City Science Initiative
Emily G. Martin – Assistant at MIT Education Arcade

Guest Instructors
Nicole Freedman – MIT Road Cycling Coach and Director of Boston Bikes
Scot Osterweil – Game Designer and Creative Director at MIT Education Arcade
Jinhua Zhao – PhD, Edward H. and Joyce Linde Assistant Professor, DUSP at MIT
Dr. Sebastian Deterding – Assistant Professor, Game Design, Northeastern University
y.t. – SCUL Controller and Project Manager at MIT Education Arcade

Schedule – Jan 21 (9am-12pm), Jan 23 (9am-12pm), Jan 28 (9am-12pm), Jan 30 (9am-12pm)
Location – E15-359, MIT Media Lab
Syllabus – http://bit.ly/SISsyllabus
Website – http://cp.media.mit.edu/workshops
MIT IAP – http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9289af8d4a4dbcf9014a5957ad270171.html

Enrollment – Advance sign-up required by Jan 16, 2015. Class size limited to 20 participants.
Prerequisites – Permission of instructor
Attendance – Participants welcome at individual sessions
Sponsors – Media Arts and Sciences, City Science Initiative, Persuasive Urban Mobility

Contact – Agnis Stibe, E15-368, agnis at mit.edu
Register – http://bit.ly/SociallyIS

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Dr. Agnis Stibe
Practical Scientist | Postdoctoral Associate @ MIT Media Lab
City Science | Changing Places | Persuasive Urban Mobility
E15-368, 20 Ames st, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA | http://cp.media.mit.edu
agnis at mit.edu | +1-774-444-1750 | @agsti | http://media.mit.edu/~agnis
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