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Designing Narrative-Based Interfaces For Collective Action: A Case Study Using Amazon, Climate Change, And Consumer Behavior, Catherine Parnell

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses

Climate change is the most pressing issue facing future generations. Amongst expanses of the population there is a lack of collective action on environmental issues, as there is a large gap between awareness and behavior change. This study suggests persuasive design that utilizes a narrative framing as a solution to reduce barriers to engaging in issues of collective action. Through extensive need-finding studies to understand target users, this thesis uses online-shopping via Amazon as a context for arguing that narrative can support actionable change in behavior. The technical artifact resulting from this research is a developed chrome extension and web …

Exploring The Relationship Between Intrinsic Motivation And Receptivity To Mhealth Interventions, Sarah Hong

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses

Recent research in mHealth has shown the promise of Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs). JITAIs aim to deliver the right type and amount of support at the right time. Choosing the right delivery time involves determining a user's state of receptivity, that is, the degree to which a user is willing to accept, process, and use the intervention provided.

Although past work on generic phone notifications has found evidence that users are more likely to respond to notifications with content they view as useful, there is no existing research on whether users' intrinsic motivation for the underlying topic of mHealth …