Effects of Commercial Exergames on Motivation in Brian Injury Therapy

Putnam, Cynthia; Lin, Amanda; Subramanian, Vansanth; Anderson, Dorian C.; Christian, Erica J.; Swaminathan, Bharathi; Yalla, Sai V.; Cotter, William; Ciccone, Danielle; Cheng, Jinghui

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Designing for Sustained Motivation: A Review of Self-Determination Theory in Behaviour Change Technologies

Alberts,

Lyngs,

Lukoff

2024

Interacting With Computers

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Recent years have seen a surge in applications and technologies aimed at motivating users to achieve personal goals and improve their wellbeing. However, these often fail to promote long-term behaviour change, and sometimes even backfire. We consider how self-determination theory (SDT), a metatheory of human motivation and wellbeing, can help explain why such technologies fail, and how they may better help users internalize the motivation behind their goals and make enduring changes in their behaviour. In this work, we systematically reviewed 15 papers in the ACM Digital Library that apply SDT to the design of behaviour change technologies (BCTs). We identified 50 suggestions for design features in BCTs, grounded in SDT, that researchers have applied to enhance user motivation. However, we find that SDT is often leveraged to optimize engagement with the technology itself rather than with the targeted behaviour change per se. When interpreted through the lens of SDT, the implication is that BCTs may fail to cultivate sustained changes in behaviour, as users’ motivation depends on their enjoyment of the intervention, which may wane over time. An underexplored opportunity remains for designers to leverage SDT to support users to internalize the ultimate goals and value of certain behaviour changes, enhancing their motivation to sustain these changes in the long term.

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Designing for Sustained Motivation: A Review of Self-Determination Theory in Behaviour Change Technologies

Alberts,

Lyngs,

Lukoff

2024

Interacting With Computers

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Self-Determination Theory and Technology Design

Peters

Calvo

2023

The Oxford Handbook of Self-Determination Theory

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This chapter reviews the breadth of work applying self-determination theory (SDT) to digital technology with a focus on how it informs design. SDT is especially well-suited and actionable within the technology design context. The chapter reviews advancements within specific domains, highlighting fields that have been productive with respect to SDT in technology, including games, health, and education. It then shifts to work that applies SDT to user experience and technology design across domains, including the METUX model, and it describes efforts to provide practitioners with SDT-based tools that bridge academic theory to design practice. The chapter concludes by identifying gaps and opportunities for future work. The aim is to pull together the disparate work across domains that has constituted SDT for technology research and provide a coherent foundation for building on this work synergistically into the future.

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Aiming, Pointing, Steering: A Core Task Analysis Framework for Gameplay

Hougaard,

Knoche

2024

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Underneath their compelling audiovisual surface, games require players to carry out mundane interaction work, such as pointing, typing, or steering. However, many of these underlying building blocks are not defined rigorously, hampering synthesis and analysis. We elaborate on the origin of tasks within human-computer interaction (HCI) and define tasks' relationship to game terminology (game mechanics, goals, and actions). Our proposed framework draws on systemic-structural theory of activity to aid systematic analysis and exploration of game design by mapping gameplay to abstract core tasks. The framework contains four task tools, applicable when 1) uncovering design properties, 2) designing experimental manipulation, 3) creating behavioral measurements, and 4) describing gameplay in literature reviews of game genres and design techniques. We evaluated our framework as a lens to design purposeful games in three case studies within a scientific education. We invite researchers and practitioners to employ the framework as a microscope, to describe and design games rigorously.

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Effects of Commercial Exergames on Motivation in Brian Injury Therapy

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Designing for Sustained Motivation: A Review of Self-Determination Theory in Behaviour Change Technologies

Designing for Sustained Motivation: A Review of Self-Determination Theory in Behaviour Change Technologies

Self-Determination Theory and Technology Design

Aiming, Pointing, Steering: A Core Task Analysis Framework for Gameplay

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