Storywell: Designing for Family Fitness App Motivation by Using Social Rewards and Reflection

Saksono, Herman; Castaneda‐Sceppa, Carmen; Hoffman, Jessica A.; Morris, Vivien; El-Nasr, Magy Seif; Parker, Andrea G.

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376686

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“…Our framework implies that the problem with virtual rewards is not in the learning of the contingencies between behavioral responses and rewards but in the corresponding goal values of these rewards: the goal values of virtual rewards are often low, when compared with other hedonic attributes, such as tastiness and reduced effort. Future research on gamification should focus on making virtual rewards more goal relevant and meaningful [131], for example, by embedding them as a game mechanic that users care about [132], using tangible rather than intangible rewards [133,134], or making the rewards socially meaningful [135,136].…”

Section: Digital Intervention Techniques Targeting Action-level Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theory Integration for Lifestyle Behavior Change in the Digital Age: An Adaptive Decision-Making Framework

Zhang¹,

Lakens²,

IJsselsteijn³

2021

J Med Internet Res

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Despite the growing popularity of digital health interventions, limitations of traditional behavior change theories and a lack of theory integration hinder theory-driven behavior change applications. In this paper, we aim to review theories relevant to lifestyle behavior change from the broader psychology literature and then integrate these theories into a new theoretical framework called adaptive decision-making to address two specific problems. First, our framework represents lifestyle behaviors at two levels—one of individual daily decisions (action level) and one of larger behavioral episodes (reflection level)—to more closely match the temporal characteristics of lifestyle behaviors and their associated digital data. Second, the framework connects decision-making theories and learning theories to explain how behaviors and cognitive constructs dynamically influence each other, making it a suitable scaffold for building computational models. We map common digital intervention techniques onto the behavioral and cognitive processes in the framework and discuss possible contributions of the framework to both theory development and digital intervention design.

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Section: Digital Intervention Techniques Targeting Action-level Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theory Integration for Lifestyle Behavior Change in the Digital Age: An Adaptive Decision-Making Framework

Zhang¹,

Lakens²,

IJsselsteijn³

2021

J Med Internet Res

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“…Another set of studies have examined the deliberate inclusion of social engagement within personal health informatics applications. Saksono and colleagues have examined the use of social rewards such as stories for engaging low socio-economic status families in physical activity tracking [64,66]. Similarly, Grimes and colleagues explored shared stories as a way of engaging African-American families in healthy eating [25].…”

Section: Collaborative and Social Support In Personal Health Informatics Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants felt that using metaphors to equate the journey of healthy behaviors to the journey to freedom from slavery were motivators for completing their six-week journey. In contrast to other ways stories have been used in personal informatics tools [64,66], the stories in the program were factual and based on true historical events, which some participants felt provided a way for them to connect with their past spiritually. Other participants felt that it also provided a way for them to learn about their history.…”

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confidence: 99%

Bridging Community, History, and Culture in Personal Informatics Tools

Martin-Hammond

Purnell

2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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A healthy diet and increased physical activity are essential for reducing the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and related deaths, a worldwide public health concern that disproportionately affects Black American communities. Still, Black Americans can face unique challenges meeting dietary and physical activity requirements due to inequities in access and quality of care, environmental and local factors, and difficulties in changing individual health behaviors. Personal informatics and self-tracking tools are one way of increasing awareness of health behaviors to motivate behavior change. However, there are still gaps in knowledge about what encourages different users to engage with personal informatics tools over time, particularly when used in collaborative, community-health settings. This paper contributes a nuanced understanding of fifteen participants' reasons for engaging in an existing community-based health education and behavior change program that combines collaborative self-tracking with culturally relevant content and social engagement to motivate heart-healthy behaviors. We illustrate participants' positive and negative experiences engaging in self-tracking and collaborative tasks during the program. We also discuss how participants envision that integrating technology might support or hinder participant engagement and the work of deploying community-based public health interventions. Finally, we discuss design implications for culturally informed, community-based personal informatics tools that engage Black American's in heart-healthy activities.

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“…Unmet ftness tracker goals can result in rumination, resulting in reduced motivation and negative consequences on wellbeing [22]. Saksono and colleagues [26] also found that seasonality is one of the barriers to use the ftness app they employed in their study. Despite the evidence, most self-tracking tools do not yet address the infuence of seasonal variability and other adherent barriers of PA fuctuations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Self-Tracking and Management of Physical Activity Fluctuations: An Investigation into Seasons

Åström

Verkade

Kleijn

et al. 2021

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Many active people experience physical activity (PA) frequency fuctuation over the year and need to overcome several perceived barriers to PA to remain active. This paper mainly addresses one of these barriers, Seasonal Variability, and its adherent infuencing factors on PA maintenance, which has received limited attention in previous self-tracking studies. We followed a Research through Design approach to explore the infuence of the seasons on people's PA fuctuations. We were inspired by professional athletes' seasonal training plan approach, and conceptualized Seasons, a PA self-management tool. We used the tool to gather PA maintenance and fuctuation coping strategies from 10 participants. Our results show that experiencing PA fuctuations is commonplace, especially due to weather conditions, as well as unexpected circumstances. Individuals deploy diferent strategies to overcome these fuctuations. Our fndings lead to recommendations for HCI researchers to consider when designing future PA maintenance tools. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in interaction design; User centered design; Interface design prototyping.

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Storywell: Designing for Family Fitness App Motivation by Using Social Rewards and Reflection

Cited by 48 publications

References 53 publications

Theory Integration for Lifestyle Behavior Change in the Digital Age: An Adaptive Decision-Making Framework

Theory Integration for Lifestyle Behavior Change in the Digital Age: An Adaptive Decision-Making Framework

Bridging Community, History, and Culture in Personal Informatics Tools

Self-Tracking and Management of Physical Activity Fluctuations: An Investigation into Seasons

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