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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 |
Appears in Collections: | Δημοσιεύσεις σε συνέδρια /Conference papers or poster or presentation |
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