Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/29935
Title: How does the visual aesthetics of positively-framed messages impact their motivational capacity?
Authors: Duro, Lígia 
Romão, Teresa 
Karapanos, Evangelos 
Campos, Pedro F. 
Major Field of Science: Social Sciences
Field Category: Media and Communications
Keywords: Exercise motivation;Motivational text messages;Physical activity;Visual aesthetics
Issue Date: 10-Sep-2019
Source: 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: Design for Cognition, ECCE 2019, Belfast, 10 - 13 September 2019
Conference: ECCE 2019 - Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: ''Design for Cognition'' 
Abstract: Many people nowadays engage with motivational text messages embedded in a visual presentation. However, empirical studies of the impact of textual messages on users’ motivation to exercise have paid little attention to how their visual appeal impacts their motivational capacity. We conducted an online experiment to explore the impact of visual aesthetics on the motivational capacity of positively-framed textual messages. Participants were assigned to three conditions: positively-framed messages a) presented as text-only (no-aesthetics), b) presented with high visual appeal (beautiful), and c) presented with low visual appeal (ugly). Contrary to our expectations, the perceived visual appeal of a message show no impact on its motivational capacity in terms of how motivating it was perceived to be, nor on extrinsic identified behavior regulation. The implications of these results on the design of interactive systems, and physical activity trackers in particular, are discussed herein.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/29935
ISBN: 9781450371667
DOI: 10.1145/3335082.3335085
Rights: © Association for Computing Machinery
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Type: Conference Papers
Affiliation : Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute 
Universidade Nova de Lisboa 
University of Madeira 
Cyprus University of Technology 
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