Feasibility of generating structured motivational messages for tailored physical activity coaching

Tailored motivational messages are helpful to motivate people in eHealth applications for increasing physical activity, but it is not sufficiently clear how such can be effectively generated advance. We, therefore, put forward a theory-driven approach generating tailored behavior change, and we examine its feasibility by assessing motivating the resulting perceived. For this, designed with specific structure that was based on an adaptation of existing ontology tailoring context activity. To obtain messages, experts health psychology coaching successfully wrote this personas scenarios differed regard persona’s mood, self-efficacy, progress. Based experiment which 60 participants each rated perceived impact six generic scenarios, found credible support our hypothesis progress as more motivating. A thematic analysis people’s free-text responses about what they demotivating further supports use well encouraging empathetic, give feedback progress, mention benefits aid future work make corresponding publicly available.