TY - GEN
T1 - The different effects of motivational messages and monetary incentives on fostering walking behavior
AU - Tseng, Yuan Chi
AU - Chang, Hui Yen
AU - Yen, Shih Wei
N1 - Funding Information:
Yuan-Chi Tseng gratefully acknowledge the grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 104-2628-E-006-013-MY3).
PY - 2018/4/20
Y1 - 2018/4/20
N2 - While motivational messages and monetary incentives are all useful intervention strategies to promote people's physical activity, it remains unclear how these strategies work together to increase people’s steps/day and whether the effect will continue after the intervention period. Here, we investigate how these two interventions affect how adult office workers with sedentary jobs set their goals and achieve these daily step goals. We found that motivational messages can improve people’s walking behavior only when their behavior is first influenced by motivational messages, not through money. Although monetary incentives increase people's commitment to goals, it makes those who with low self-efficacy tend to set easier goals. Monetary incentives may have adversely affect the walking behavior of people who have low self-efficacy. These findings help to shed some lights on how to design persuasive mechanisms for mobile health and fitness applications.
AB - While motivational messages and monetary incentives are all useful intervention strategies to promote people's physical activity, it remains unclear how these strategies work together to increase people’s steps/day and whether the effect will continue after the intervention period. Here, we investigate how these two interventions affect how adult office workers with sedentary jobs set their goals and achieve these daily step goals. We found that motivational messages can improve people’s walking behavior only when their behavior is first influenced by motivational messages, not through money. Although monetary incentives increase people's commitment to goals, it makes those who with low self-efficacy tend to set easier goals. Monetary incentives may have adversely affect the walking behavior of people who have low self-efficacy. These findings help to shed some lights on how to design persuasive mechanisms for mobile health and fitness applications.
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U2 - 10.1145/3170427.3188670
DO - 10.1145/3170427.3188670
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052026443
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018
Y2 - 21 April 2018 through 26 April 2018
ER -