The Activated Motivation Toolkit: Towards Self-Determined Self-Improvement Technology

激活的动机工具包：迈向自我决定的自我改进技术

• 批准号: RGPIN-2022-03268
• 负责人: Wallace, James
• 金额: $ 2.99万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=764369
• 关键词: Activated; Motivation; Toolkit; Towards; Self

Everyday, millions of people use technologies like a fitbit, smartwatch, or smartphone to support self-improvement. These devices and their associated apps have become both inexpensive and pervasive; they monitor our shopping habits, physical activity, and ecological footprint and visualize that data to help us reflect on our limitations, to set and make progress towards goals, and recognize achievements. The potential impacts of these technologies are immense; to improve our finances, to educate ourselves and develop new skills, and to improve our health and the health of our planet. However, research has cast doubt on their effectiveness. That is, people tend to lose motivation over time and fail to meet their personal goals. To address these shortcomings, I will explore how we can use established theories of human motivation to create technologies that motivate change, provoke self-reflection and persistence, and promote our health and well-being. The long-term objective of this research program is to enable Human-Computer Interaction researchers and practitioners to deeply integrate the concepts of Self-Determination Theory - an extensively validated macro-theory from psychology that describes human motivation and well-being - into the technologies we use today, and to shape the design of emerging technologies like augmented reality. The proposed research program will be the first to demonstrate how activated motivation, the use of text, images, and audio to prime individuals to be more receptive, engaged, and persistent during self-improvement tasks, can be used to make self-improvement technologies more effective. To do so, this research program will engage in an interconnected series of short-term goals:  1) a series of laboratory studies will examine how activated motivation can be integrated into common user interface elements (e.g., icons, audio) and software features (e.g., fitness or activity tracking apps) while qualitative methods are used to develop an understanding of when it is most effective; 2) a series of field studies will demonstrate efficacy and feasibility in practice through prototype development in domains like fitness, nutrition, and climate change, and across a variety of devices, including smartphone, smartwatch, and augmented reality; and 3) an Activated Motivation Toolkit will be developed and shared with the research community and industry partners which includes working examples and tasks from the experimental studies. Together, these research activities will build on established theories from psychology to improve software interfaces for self-improvement, and ultimately, the health and well-being of Canadians. Through this research, students will receive training in fundamental and applied research methods in human-computer interaction, design, and qualitative and quantitative research methods.  These are critical skills for a variety of industries, including software engineering, healthcare and education.

每天，数百万人使用Fitbit、智能手表或智能手机等技术来支持自我提升。这些设备及其相关的应用程序已经变得既便宜又普遍;它们监测我们的购物习惯，身体活动和生态足迹，并将这些数据可视化，以帮助我们反思我们的局限性，设定目标并朝着目标前进，并认识到成就。这些技术的潜在影响是巨大的：改善我们的财政状况，自我教育和发展新技能，改善我们的健康和我们星球的健康。然而，研究对其有效性表示怀疑。也就是说，随着时间的推移，人们往往会失去动力，无法实现个人目标。为了解决这些缺点，我将探讨我们如何利用人类动机的既定理论来创造技术，激励变革，激发自我反思和坚持，并促进我们的健康和福祉。 该研究计划的长期目标是使人机交互研究人员和实践者能够将自我决定理论的概念-一种广泛验证的宏观理论，描述了人类的动机和幸福-融入我们今天使用的技术中。以及塑造增强现实等新兴技术的设计。拟议中的研究计划将是第一个展示激活动机，使用文本、图像和音频来引导个体在自我改进任务期间更容易接受、参与和坚持，可以用于使自我改进技术更有效。 为了做到这一点，这项研究计划将从事一系列相互关联的短期目标：1）一系列实验室研究将研究如何激活动机可以整合到共同的用户界面元素（例如，图标、音频）和软件特征（例如，2）一系列的实地研究将通过在健身、营养和气候变化等领域以及在各种设备（包括智能手机、智能手表和增强现实）上的原型开发来证明实践中的有效性和可行性;以及3）将开发并与研究社区和行业合作伙伴共享激活动机工具包，其中包括实验研究的工作示例和任务。 这些研究活动将建立在心理学的既定理论基础上，以改善软件界面，从而实现自我完善，并最终改善加拿大人的健康和福祉。通过这项研究，学生将接受人机交互，设计以及定性和定量研究方法的基础和应用研究方法的培训。 这些是各种行业的关键技能，包括软件工程，医疗保健和教育。