Feasibility of generating structured motivational messages for tailored physical activity coaching.

ABSTRACT: Tailored motivational messages are helpful to motivate people in eHealth applications for increasing physical activity, but it is not sufficiently clear how such messages can be effectively generated in advance. We, therefore, put forward a theory-driven approach to generating tailored motivational messages for eHealth applications for behavior change, and we examine its feasibility by assessing how motivating the resulting messages are perceived. For this, we designed motivational messages with a specific structure that was based on an adaptation of an existing ontology for tailoring motivational messages in the context of physical activity. To obtain tailored messages, experts in health psychology and coaching successfully wrote messages with this structure for personas in scenarios that

SUBMITTER: Ghantasala RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10523307 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature