TY - GEN
T1 - Helping users set rules for defining short-term activity goals
AU - Lee, Jisoo
AU - Chiauzzi, Emil
AU - Hekler, Eric B.
AU - Towner, Auriell
AU - Fitz-Randolph, Marcy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Authors.
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - Goal-setting is a valuable behavior change strategy. For patients with multiple sclerosis, a variety of factors such as symptoms (e.g., pain, fatigue), environmental factors (e.g., weather), and mood can all greatly influence a person's ability to meet daily goals. Based on this, these patients and others with chronic pain, would likely benefit from strategies that could aid them in developing their own personalized physical activity goals that can take into account these factors dynamically. The purpose of this formative study was to explore this problem space via interviews and early formative prototyping of possible protocols to aid people in developing their own personalized and adaptive goals. Results from this work suggest interest in tools to support rules to help individuals define their "sweet spot" target for physical activity and further work appears warranted with longer studies.
AB - Goal-setting is a valuable behavior change strategy. For patients with multiple sclerosis, a variety of factors such as symptoms (e.g., pain, fatigue), environmental factors (e.g., weather), and mood can all greatly influence a person's ability to meet daily goals. Based on this, these patients and others with chronic pain, would likely benefit from strategies that could aid them in developing their own personalized physical activity goals that can take into account these factors dynamically. The purpose of this formative study was to explore this problem space via interviews and early formative prototyping of possible protocols to aid people in developing their own personalized and adaptive goals. Results from this work suggest interest in tools to support rules to help individuals define their "sweet spot" target for physical activity and further work appears warranted with longer studies.
KW - Goal-setting
KW - Multiple sclerosis
KW - Physical activity
KW - Self-experimentation
KW - Self-tracking
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U2 - 10.1145/2851581.2892488
DO - 10.1145/2851581.2892488
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014695231
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2178
EP - 2184
BT - CHI EA 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2016
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -