Crowd-Designed Motivation: Motivational Messages for Exercise Adherence
Based on Behavior Change Theory
Behavioral Change
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de Vries, Roelof A. J.
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Truong, Khiet P.
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Kwint, Sigrid
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Drossaert, Constance H. C.
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Evers, Vanessa
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016-05-07
v.1
p.297-308
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: 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.
Coping with somatic illnesses in online support groups: Do the feared
disadvantages actually occur?
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van Uden-Kraan, C. F.
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Drossaert, C. H. C.
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Taal, E.
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Lebrun, C. E. I.
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Drossaers-Bakker, K. W.
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Smit, W. M.
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Seydel, E. R.
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van de Laar, M. A. F. J.
Computers in Human Behavior
2008-03
v.24
n.2
p.309-324
Keywords: Support groups
Keywords: Internet
Keywords: Breast cancer
Keywords: Fibromyalgia
Keywords: Arthritis
Keywords: Content analysis
© Copyright 2008 Elsevier Ltd.
Summary: People in stressful circumstances, such as serious health conditions, often
turn to support groups. With the increase in the availability and popularity of
the Internet, the possibility has arisen to join support groups online. Various
authors have raised potential disadvantages of these groups, such as the lack
of control of the quality of the information that is exchanged and the concern
that the exchange within the group might include socially inappropriate
remarks. In this study we explored to what extent these potential disadvantages
actually occur. In addition, we explored who uses Dutch online support groups
and what is exchanged by the participants. By means of "content analysis" we
analyzed a random sample of 1500 messages from publicly available online
support groups for patients with breast cancer, arthritis and fibromyalgia. It
appeared that the online support groups under study were mainly used by female
patients. A major part of the postings contained "off topic" remarks. Popular
health related topics were "restrictions in daily life" and "regular
medication". Only in a minor proportion of the postings, potential
disadvantages were present. Therefore this study suggests that online support
groups are a viable option for support.
