Stay on the ball! an interaction pattern approach to the engineering of motivation

  • Authors:
  • Kirstin Kohler;Sabine Niebuhr;Marc Hassenzahl

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper introduces an interaction pattern approach to "engineer" motivation. Its goal is to provide concrete ideas (in the form of patterns) on how to design software that motivates its users to stay on a task. The paper presents an example of a motivating pattern, the Task Status Display (TSD), and its empirical validation. Preliminary results support its motivational effect, thereby lending support to the general notion of building motivation into interactive products for the workplace.