Abstract
Persuasive messages have recently been shown to be more effective when tailored to the personality and preferences of the recipient. However, much of the literature on adaptive persuasion has evaluated the effectiveness of persuasive attempts by the direct reactions to those attempts instead of changes on the longer term (e.g. lifestyle changes). Results of this study suggest that adaptive persuasion improves attitudes towards persuasive attempts, but does not necessarily cause a change in longer term behavior. This was found through a randomized controlled trial evaluating the implementation an adaptive persuasive system in a health promotion intervention. This article provides a detailed description of this evaluation and encourages the research community to (1) become more skeptical towards the longer term effectiveness of adaptive persuasive techniques and (2) design more explicitly for longer term changes in behavior.
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See https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8289044.v1 for the list of persuasive elements as used by the APMS.
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See https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8288882.v1 for the list of challenges.
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Activity-message causation in MS was determined the same way message effectiveness was measured using information on the performed activities of participants; by flagging messages of which the promoted activity was performed within 3 days, indicating a message as it’s trigger.
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This work is part of the research program ‘Gamification for Overweight Prevention and Active Lifestyle’ (443001101), which is partly financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw). The authors also thank Kalliopi Zervanou for feedback on an early version of this work
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d’Hondt, J.E., Nuijten, R.C.Y., Van Gorp, P.M.E. (2019). Evaluation of Computer-Tailored Motivational Messaging in a Health Promotion Context. In: Bella, G., Bouquet, P. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11939. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34974-5_11
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