Motivational affordances and personality types in personal informatics

Karanam, Yamini; Filko, Leslie; Kaser, Lindsay; Alotaibi, Hanan; Makhsoom, Elham; Voida, Stephen

doi:10.1145/2638728.2638800

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“…the Big Five Inventory [35]) and player styles (e.g. BrainHex [71,72], Hexad [98]) play a significant role [10,56,74]. Many studies have investigated user typologies and their associated scales to predict preferences for different gamification elements [3,38,46,95].…”

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Tailoring Gamification for Adolescents: a Validation Study of Big Five and Hexad in Dutch

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Verbert

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Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Gamification researchers deem adolescents a particularly interesting audience for tailored gamification. However, empirical validation of popular player typologies and personality trait models thus far has been limited to adults. As adolescents exhibit complex behaviours that differ from older adults, these models may need adaptation. To that end, we collected a unique data set of Big Five Inventory and Hexad questionnaire answers in Dutch from 402 adolescents. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the Dutch forms of the BFI-10, BFI-44 and Hexad scales performed substandard when used with adolescents. Through exploratory factor analysis, we investigated underlying problems, and provide preliminary suggestions on how to improve measurements. In particular, we propose to simplify the Hexad model, and to reformulate specific items. With this study, we hope to contribute to the debate on how to improve the tailoring of interactive systems for adolescents. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; Empirical studies in HCI.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tailoring Gamification for Adolescents: a Validation Study of Big Five and Hexad in Dutch

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Verbert

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“…by ascribing meanings to them), instead of pushing ourselves toward modalities of analysis closer to how machines "think". Moreover, providing diversified tools depending on the user's level of expertise can overcome the one-sizefits-all approach that has been strongly criticized even in the gamification domain [45,24]. This would balance the level of "challenge" in managing PI data on the basis of the individual's competence, turning this practice in a sort of an engaging game, whereby the "hardest" sense-making tasks would be accomplished by the more expert users by using sophisticated tools, and the inexperienced ones would be guided step-by-step by the system.…”

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“…Zhao et al [100] reviewed how gamification can be utilized in conjunction with wearable devices for activity tracking, whereas Morschheuser et al [58] showed that gamification has a positive effect on the motivation to use PI applications. Leaderboards [101], points [8], and competitive dynamics [11] have been experimented to increase users' engagement with PI tools, also taking into account personality types [45] and developing tailor-made games directly connected with personal data [60].…”

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Gamification for Self-Tracking

Rapp¹

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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World of Warcraft (WoW) may be a source of inspiration to enrich the Personal Informatics systems user's experience and, at the same time, improve gamification design. Through the findings of a four-year reflexive ethnography in WoW, I outline how its game design elements support players in making sense of their own data, emphasizing how "game numbers" are turned into meanings. On the basis of the study results, I propose a series of design considerations to be used in the design of self-tracking systems, which recommend to embody data into digital entities, provide different analytical tools depending on the users' expertise through a flexible model, and foster the formation of "communities of practice" in order to support learning processes.

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“…Since the introduction of theories focusing on motivational affordances, motivational affordances in general and certain affordances, in particular, have been found to correlate with different learning types (Engedal 2015) and personality types (Karanam et al 2014): Some people react differently to the same affordances. This stresses the importance of gaining information about potential users before a system is implemented.…”

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Motivational assistance system design for industrial production: from motivation theories to design strategies

Dostert

Müller

2020

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Industrial production is still widely sustained by human operators. However, the design of human-machine interaction often does not foster the motivation to learn more about their machine or system. This may decrease operators' ability to flexibly adjust their decision making and problem-solving skills to the current production context. Motivation to learn could be attained by a motivating socio-technical design of assistance systems, but suitable and context-specific design strategies are lacking. In the present study, a systematic literature review of motivation theories in education, at the workplace, and in system design was carried out. The resulting 16 theories were integrated into a conceptual model of motivating assistance system design in industrial production. In this model, learning motivation results from the satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which in turn is mediated through the design of the system (including interface, task, and behavior). Moreover, this process is subject to moderating influences from job characteristics, personal variables, and factors concerning the respective work domain. Strategies for motivational design are derived from the model, and an example from the discrete processing industry is used to illustrate how the model could be applied to design assistance systems in this domain. Finally, the procedures for theory selection and model development are discussed, theoretical and practical implications are derived, and alternative strategies of instilling motivation are considered.

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Motivational affordances and personality types in personal informatics

Cited by 23 publications

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Tailoring Gamification for Adolescents: a Validation Study of Big Five and Hexad in Dutch

Tailoring Gamification for Adolescents: a Validation Study of Big Five and Hexad in Dutch

Gamification for Self-Tracking

Motivational assistance system design for industrial production: from motivation theories to design strategies

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