Motivational Affordances and Personality Types in Personal Informatics

by | Sep 1, 2014 | Research Publications

Author(s):

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

Abstract:

Personal informatics applications have been gaining momentum with the introduction of implicit data collection and alert mechanisms on smart phones. A need for customized design of these applications is emerging and studies on tailoring UI design based on the personality traits of users are well established. This poster investigates how various affordances in gamified personal informatics applications affect motivation levels to track and achieve goals for users with different personality types. We conducted a study to examine how user personality traits relate to (1) motivational affordances in behavior tracking applications and (2) the specific behaviors users prefer to track.

Documentation:

https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2638800

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