Digital Nudging

By Markus Weinmann, Christoph Schneider, Jan vom Brocke. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2016

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Designers can create designs that nudge users toward the most desirable option.

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Administrative Easing: Rule Reduction and Medicaid Enrollment (2019, background): “Digital nudging is defined as the use of user-interface design elements to guide people’s behavior in digital choice environments (Weinmann, Schneider, and Brocke 2016).”
23 Ways to Nudge: A Review of Technology-Mediated Nudging in Human-Computer Interaction (2019, background): “Prior frameworks, both in the technological context (e.g. [49], [95]) as well as in marketing and public policy (e.g., [22][42]) have attempted to review the different cognitive biases and particular implementations of nudges, but did not address the “how to” of nudging.”
AI-Based Digital Assistants (2019, background): “Digital nudging (Weinmann et al. 2016) may be benevolent paternalism, but the borderline to manipulation is not clear-cut and is sometimes crossed.”