Paper Info
Title
Potential And Effects Of Personalizing Gameful Fitness Applications Using Behavior Change Intentions And Hexad User Types
Abstract
Personalizing gameful applications is essential to account for interpersonal differences in the perception of gameful design elements. Considering that an increasing number of people lead sedentary lifestyles, using personalized gameful applications to encourage physical activity is a particularly relevant domain. In this article, we investigate behavior change intentions and Hexad user types as factors to personalize gameful fitness applications. We first explored the potential of these two factors by analyzing differences in the perceived persuasiveness of gameful design elements using a storyboards-based online study (N = 178). Our results show several significant effects regarding both factors and thus support the usefulness of them in explaining perceptual differences. Based on these findings, we implemented "Endless Universe," a personalized gameful application encouraging physical activity on a treadmill. We used the system in a laboratory study (N = 20) to study actual effects of personalization on the users' performance, enjoyment and affective experiences. While we did not find effects on the immediate performance of users, positive effects on user experience-related measures were found. The results of this study support the relevance of behavior change intentions and Hexad user types for personalizing gameful fitness systems further.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s11257-021-09288-6
USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Gamification, Persuasive technology, Behavior change, Personalization, Hexad user types, Stage of change, TTM, Running, Sports, Step count, Physical activity
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0924-1868
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maximilian Altmeyer1198.57
Pascal Lessel200.34
Subhashini Jantwal300.34
Linda Muller401.01
Florian Daiber515125.22
Antonio Krüger61537127.04