I think Tom is persuasive.

You've got very persuasive friends.

He's invented the phrase, persuasive technologies.

PEGGY Well, you must admit you were pretty persuasive.

There is no persuasive theoretical argument for why this should happen, OK.

What about a piece of persuasive technology that convinces Muslim women to wear their headscarves?

And how does that apply, not just to persuasive technology, but to everything you design?

People use these cues to determine things like how persuasive someone is, how likable, how engaging, how trustworthy.

Those four words carried not only a lot of complex information, but also the persuasive force of a proverb.

It is very persuasive materials for understanding the individual body without difficult medical terminology even for the young generations.

The weak point of this book is that it's less than persuasive when the married author recommends not being married.

In terms of dark matter, I said that we don't have any, you know, really persuasive argument for dark energy.

He believes the mobile phone, by being location specific, contextual, timely and immediate, is simply the greatest persuasive technology device ever invented.

That would be twenty seven words instead of four, and while the bare message of the longer statement would be understood, the persuasive force would be lost.

We think that polemics (Applause) we think that polemics are not persuasive, but we think that storytelling can change the world, and so we are probably the best storytelling institution in the world.

like this one by Arne Jacobsen, is a persuasive technology, because, again, it communicates an idea of the good life a good life a life that you, as a designer, consent to by saying,

And speaking of design, you'll notice that I already broadened the discussion, because it's not just persuasive technology that we're talking about here, it's any piece of design that we put out here in the world.

And these voices became so persistent and so persuasive that I started to legitimately fear for my life, which is the time that I said to myself after 34 days and I will never forget this moment

And let's face it, the contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more persuasive value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.

But if robots can be engaging, if we like to cooperate with robots, if robots are persuasive, maybe a robot can help you maintain a diet and exercise program, maybe they can help you manage your weight.

And in the same way that we cannot not communicate, we cannot not persuade whatever we do or refrain from doing, whatever we put out there as a piece of design, into the world, has a persuasive component.

I said, Well, it's so persuasive, because the purpose of that sign is to get you into the garage, and since most people are so suspicious of garages, and know that they're going to be ripped off, they use the word 'reliable.'

Even something as innocuous as a set of school chairs is a persuasive technology, because it presents and materializes a certain vision of the good life a good life in which teaching and learning and listening is about one person teaching, the others listening in which it is about learning is done while sitting in which you learn for yourself in which you're not supposed to change these rules, because the chairs are fixed to the ground.