TY - GEN
T1 - How do motivational text messages impact motivation to exercise? Implications for the design of activity trackers
AU - Duro, Lígia
AU - Campos, Pedro F.
AU - Romão, Teresa
AU - Karapanos, Evangelos
N1 - This research was funded by ARDITI –Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnológica e Inovação, Madeira Island, Portugal, under the support of the Project M1420 -09-5369-FSE-000001 – Ph.D. scholarship.
PY - 2019/9/23
Y1 - 2019/9/23
N2 - We study the motives of regular and non-regular exercisers' engagement with motivational text messages and the importance individuals attribute to visual presentation. A total of 160 individuals were surveyed (80 regular exercisers and 80 non-regular exercisers). We found regular exercisers use motivational text messages in order to encourage their exercise routine. Non-regular exercisers use motivational text messages mainly to try to boost their exercise motivation. Individuals, independent of their exercise profile, prefer to see motivational text messages presented in a mixed way, sometimes as text-only and sometimes embedded in a visual presentation. Participants reported that an aesthetically appealing visual presentation helps instill a positive feeling regarding the text, and the visual presentation was considered as important as the textual content. We conclude with a number of implications for the design of activity trackers.
AB - We study the motives of regular and non-regular exercisers' engagement with motivational text messages and the importance individuals attribute to visual presentation. A total of 160 individuals were surveyed (80 regular exercisers and 80 non-regular exercisers). We found regular exercisers use motivational text messages in order to encourage their exercise routine. Non-regular exercisers use motivational text messages mainly to try to boost their exercise motivation. Individuals, independent of their exercise profile, prefer to see motivational text messages presented in a mixed way, sometimes as text-only and sometimes embedded in a visual presentation. Participants reported that an aesthetically appealing visual presentation helps instill a positive feeling regarding the text, and the visual presentation was considered as important as the textual content. We conclude with a number of implications for the design of activity trackers.
KW - Exercise motivation
KW - Motivational text messages
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076698318&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3351995.3352043
DO - 10.1145/3351995.3352043
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076698318
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - CHItaly 2019 - Proceedings of the 13th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter Designing the Next Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 13th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter Designing the Next Interaction, CHItaly 2019
Y2 - 23 September 2019 through 25 September 2019
ER -