Flow is Not Enough: Understanding the Needs of Advanced Amateur Runners to Design Motivation Technology
Paper i proceeding, 2015

Motivation studies on running are often focused on how to convince non-runners to run, mainly through designing for extrinsic motivations such as health concerns or external reward systems. In contrast, we conducted a structured inquiry into understanding how to design technology for those whom are already committed to running and participate in organized races. Through interviews, focus groups, ethnographic observation, questionnaires, and design-based research over the course of two years, we investigated the needs of the advanced amateur runner community. An analysis of the gathered data led to five design themes – Festival, Competition, Practicalities, Togetherness, and Support – to inform future runner motivation technology. While flow theory appears to be a convenient tool to understand support during a race, we observed a number of other factors that need to be considered. Through combining the themes with previous research, we conclude by presenting nine guidelines for designing technology for this domain.

motivation

design

runners

Författare

Kristina Knaving

Göteborgs universitet

Pawel Wozniak

Chalmers, Tillämpad informationsteknologi, Interaktionsdesign

Morten Fjeld

Chalmers, Tillämpad informationsteknologi, Interaktionsdesign

Staffan Björk

Göteborgs universitet

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15)

Vol. 2015-April 10-
978-1-4503-3145-6 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Människa-datorinteraktion (interaktionsdesign)

DOI

10.1145/2702123.2702542

ISBN

978-1-4503-3145-6

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