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‘This Is Your Life’ is a training aimed at personal growth, or ‘flourishing’, and is based on the science of positive psychology. The objective of this project was to create a design for a digital version of a book with theory and exercises about positive psychology. The target group for the digital version were primary school teachers. A user-centered design approach was used together with persuasive and gameful design frameworks. More specifically, a metaphorical design was used to motivate the target group to start using the training and to continue using and complete the training. Several metaphors were explored and tested with the target group. Finally, a working prototype of the digital training was developed and tested by the target user group. From this final test we found that the chosen metaphorical design indeed motivated people to (1) start working on the training and (2) continue working on the training.
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Ludden, G.D.S., Kelders, S.M., Snippert, B.H.J. (2014). ‘This Is Your Life!’. In: Spagnolli, A., Chittaro, L., Gamberini, L. (eds) Persuasive Technology. PERSUASIVE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07127-5_16
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