Team 5 Florence Acevedo, Cecilia Hou, Trevor Jenkins

Desire

Set Goal

Plan

Complete

Feedback

Progress

Goal Lifecycle

Problem Background Setting academic goals can lead to

higher grades and improved

academic achievement

Students regularly set goals but are

unable to achieve them due to

motivational barriers

Few goal-supportive systems utilize

psychology-based theories and

mechanisms in their design

Objective Develop an application to help set

academic goals and overcome

motivational obstacles

Apply motivation and goal theories to

provide users with support currently

unavailable in the market

Personalize system by matching

user’s motivational orientations

Design Process and Solution

Research Behavioural Sciences Theories

Review of Existing Goal Apps

Selection of Effective and Underutilized Theories

Methodology Surveyed 58 individuals to determine:

regulatory focus (RF) scores

motivational impact of feedback

using scenario-based questions

Correlation analysis between phrase's

impact on motivation levels and user’s

motivational orientation scores

Tested three coaching arrangements

to maximize motivation increase:

1. Feedback phrases based on

hypothesized correlation

2. Feedback phrases based on

correlation analysis

3. Feedback phrases based on the

introduction of a third-hybrid coach

Results & Conclusions Significant motivational increase or

maintenance observed in all methods

Method 3 has largest number of us-

ers with increased or consistent moti-

vational levels

NEW GOAL SUCCESS PROBLEMS

Instant Visual Feedback

A picture’s worth a thousand words

1. Set New Goal & Develop Plan

Streamlined process for different goal

types and difficulty gauging

2. Track Goal Progress

Easy goal tracking process enables

hassle-free updating of goal progress

3. Novel Approach to Motivational Feedback

Personalized coaching keeps users motivated, even when faced with obstacles Instant visual feedback provides an efficient way to see the status of all goals

Incorporation into Design as Tools

Acknowledgements Higgins Lab (Columbia) for use of the

regulatory focus questionnaire

Support from Dr. V. Bohns, A. Hurst,

O. Nespoli, Dr. A. Scholer, & ZURB.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vanessa Bohns

Goals++: Personalized Coaching for Academic Goals

1 68% 73% 71%

2 64% 82% 74%

3 88% 95% 86% 90%

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Personalized Motivational Coaching

Responds to the user’s progress to

ensure the user stays on track