Using reinforced implementation intentions to support habit formation

Adhi Wicaksono; Robert J. Hendley; Russell Beale

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Using reinforced implementation intentions to support habit formation

Adhi Wicaksono, Robert J. Hendley, Russell Beale

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Abstract

Despite promising results, the psychological approach of implementation intentions remain underused in ’in-the-wild’ habit formation apps. The majority of existing apps focus on using self-tracking and reminders but these hinder the development of habit. This study proposes a new mechanism to support habit formation by using reinforced implementation intentions. Our findings suggest that adding reinforcement is indeed useful to maintain the level of compliance but it is not necessarily the same in terms of automaticity. We also discuss how the potential use of reinforcement can be improved in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI’19 Extended Abstracts)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5971-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312985
Publication status	Published - 10 May 2019
Event	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019) - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019

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Conference	ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19

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Behaviour change
habit formation
implementation intentions

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Wicaksono, A, Hendley, RJ & Beale, R 2019, Using reinforced implementation intentions to support habit formation. in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI’19 Extended Abstracts)., 3312985, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312985

Using reinforced implementation intentions to support habit formation. / Wicaksono, Adhi; Hendley, Robert J.; Beale, Russell.
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI’19 Extended Abstracts). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. 3312985.

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