Paper Info
Title
Crowd-Designed Motivation: Motivational Messages for Exercise Adherence Based on Behavior Change Theory.
Abstract
Developing motivational technology to support long-term behavior change is a challenge. A solution is to incorporate insights from behavior change theory and design technology to tailor to individual users. We carried out two studies to investigate whether the processes of change, from the Transtheoretical Model, can be effectively represented by motivational text messages. We crowdsourced peer-designed text messages and coded them into categories based on the processes of change. We evaluated whether people perceived messages tailored to their stage of change as motivating. We found that crowdsourcing is an effective method to design motivational messages. Our results indicate that different messages are perceived as motivating depending on the stage of behavior change a person is in. However, while motivational messages related to later stages of change were perceived as motivational for those stages, the motivational messages related to earlier stages of change were not. This indicates that a person's stage of change may not be the (only) key factor that determines behavior change. More individual factors need to be considered to design effective motivational technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2858036.2858229
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
Crowdsourcing, motivational messages, exercise adherence, behavior change theory, Transtheoretical Model, processes of change, stages of change
Computer science,Effective method,Crowdsourcing,Design technology,Knowledge management,Transtheoretical model,Human–computer interaction,Applied psychology,Behavior change
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.92
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roelof de Vries1294.31
Khiet P. Truong230232.64
Sigrid Kwint3100.92
C. H. C. Drossaert4243.08
Vanessa Evers5273.49