Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation

  • Authors:
  • Madeline Balaam;Stefan Rennick Egglestone;Geraldine Fitzpatrick;Tom Rodden;Ann-Marie Hughes;Anna Wilkinson;Thomas Nind;Lesley Axelrod;Eric Harris;Ian Ricketts;Susan Mawson;Jane Burridge

  • Affiliations:
  • Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom;Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom;University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom;University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom;University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom;University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom;Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

How to motivate and support behaviour change through design is becoming of increasing interest to the CHI community. In this paper, we present our experiences of building systems that motivate people to engage in upper limb rehabilitation exercise after stroke. We report on participatory design work with four stroke survivors to develop a holistic understanding of their motivation and rehabilitation needs, and to construct and deploy engaging interactive systems that satisfy these. We reflect on the limits of motivational theories in trying to design for the lived experience of motivation and highlight lessons learnt around: helping people articulate what motivates them; balancing work, duty, fun; supporting motivation over time; and understanding the wider social context. From these we identify design guidelines that can inform a toolkit approach to support both scalability and personalisability.