Welcome to Design and Behaviour. 

The design of products, services and environments can be used to influence behaviour, and there's a growing appreciation of the possibilities for social benefit, especially in environmentally sensitive design, health, safety, security and crime reduction. This group aims to bring together people interested in this emerging field: interaction designers, product designers, graphic designers, engineers, architects, ergonomists, computer scientists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, philosophers, researchers, strategists, policy-makers and anyone else with something to say, or an interest in learning what others are doing.

It's potentially a vast subject, and there are lots of perspectives from different disciplines, but the hope is we can learn from each other. The title of the group is intentionally broad to attempt to accommodate this (the title uses the British spelling of 'behaviour' but both designandbehavior.com and designandbehaviour.com point here).

Good resources/discussions already covering this subject from different angles include Design | Behaviour (Debra Lilley), Design with Intent (Dan Lockton), the RSA's Design & Behaviour blog (Jamie Young), Behaviour Change & Technology, Stanford's Persuasive Technology Lab, the LinkedIn Persuasive Design group, the Interactive Institute's AWARE and STATIC! projects and the Nudge blog - but please, feel free to add and suggest your own. This group will inevitably end up paralleling some elements of these, but hopefully this will allow a worthwhile broadening of the discussion.

This is a new group and at this stage I have no idea how 'high traffic' it will be, nor whether most people will interact with the discussions purely via email or actually visit this site, or maybe the Facebook group. It's up to you!

P.S. Please feel free to introduce yourself, your interests, research, and so on, if you like. It helps us all to know how broad an audience is interested in this kind of stuff.