Group-customizable persuasion strategies and incentive mechanisms for engagement in behavioural data collection

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The collection of behavioural data for patients with behavioral disorders (e.g. autism) is crucial for the success of their therapies. However, this is "bookkeeping" activity, which involves mainly parents or caregivers and there is little motivation in doing it on a regular basis. The primary goal of this research project is to integrate family-customizable game elements, mechanisms and persuasive strategies into an existing patient-centric healthcare solution. The Engagement Component will motivate users to participate in the data-gathering and to enter high quality data. Parents and children will earn rewards for entering different kinds of data, and for verifying/correcting incorrect data. All activities of the users in the ActiveCare system will be stored in personal user models and group / team models. Special metrics will be designed to measure user engagement and personalized rewards will be given to users in terms of points and achievement levels with progress bars, and badges. Special user interface widgets will be designed for the engagement component to ensure motivation and participation. Finally, users will have the option to define real-world equivalents for the in-game rewards, that are meaningful for them and they all agree to play for. For example, more TV or gaming time, if they accurately complete the tasks they have been assigned and entered the required data about their feelings in the system.