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Visual Quotes and Physical Activity Tracking: Can Aesthetic Pleasure Motivate Our Short-term Exercise Motivation?

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Empirical studies of activity tracking in HCI research have paid little attention to the impact of the visual presentation of motivational text messages on exercise motivation, even though, these days, motivational texts are often embedded in a visual presentation (such as visual quotes). Herein, we report the results of an online experiment with a total of 368 participants. Contrary to expectations, perceived aesthetic pleasure did not strengthen the motivating capability of perceived positive or neutral motivational text messages on the type of exercise motivation linked to the short-term (on the extrinsic-identified behavior regulation). Findings are discussed in the context of physical activity tracking services.

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This research was funded by ARDITI –Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnológica e Inovação, Madeira Island, Portugal, under the support of the Project M1420-09-5369-FSE-000001 – Ph.D. scholarship.

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  2. NOVA LINCS DI, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Lígia Duro & Teresa Romão

  3. Persuasive Technologies Lab, University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

    Evangelos Karapanos

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Duro, L., Karapanos, E., Campos, P., Romão, T. (2020). Visual Quotes and Physical Activity Tracking: Can Aesthetic Pleasure Motivate Our Short-term Exercise Motivation?. In: Sylla, C., Iurgel, I. (eds) Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education. TIE 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 307. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40180-1_12

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