On the Ascription of Content

Persuasive Technologies is an expansive field that covers various research areas including engineering and social sciences. This document summarizes current and historical models of information processing, persuasion and persuasive systems de-sign in order to place other studies in the field within context. The Persuasive Systems Design Model is then selected as the most recent and comprehensive model in the field, afer which a series of sample context analyses are performed using this model. The case used for these context analyses is the PISA tool. Finally, we consider the limitations and possible future work of this literature review