Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation

Balaam, Madeline; Rennick Egglestone, Stefan; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine; Rodden, Tom; Hughes, A.M.; Wilkinson, Anna; Nind, Thomas; Axelrod, Lesley; Harris, Eric; Ricketts, Ian; Mawson, Sue; Burridge, Jane

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.

Citation

Balaam, M., Rennick Egglestone, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rodden, T., Hughes, A., Wilkinson, A., …Burridge, J. (2011). Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation. In D. Tan, B. Begole, & W. Kellog (Eds.), CHI 2011: conference proceedings and extended abstracts: 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 7-12, 2011. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979397

• Publication Date: May 7, 2011
• Deposit Date: Nov 28, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 28, 2011
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: CHI 2011: conference proceedings and extended abstracts: 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 7-12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781450302685
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979397
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/707520
• Publisher URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1979397
• Additional Information: © ACM, 2011. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in: CHI 2011: conference proceedings and extended abstracts: 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 7-12, 2011 / general conference chair, Desney Tan ; Bo Begole, Wendy Kellogg, technical program chairs. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2011. 9781450302685, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1979397