BCS HCI 25 Workshop

Beyond Quantitative Goals:

Design for Qualitative Goals and their Quantitative Subgoals

7 Nov 2025 • Online
9 Nov 2025 • Cardiff, UK

UPDATE

An asynchronous online workshop on 7th November, 13:00 – 16:00 (UK time), will be conducted providing opportunities for remote participation prior to the conference. We welcome paper submissions for online participation until the 24th of October.

Goals, as key aspects of users' motivation, have been much explored in personal informatics and behavior change, albeit with an emphasis on single-domain, individual, and quantitative goals with limited account for users' intrinsic motivation. This half-day workshop aims to address these gaps, through six underexplored themes focusing on

Designing for qualitative goals
Extending the measurement of quantitative goals beyond behavioral measures
Accounting for, and supporting users’ intrinsic motivation
Critical approach to goal setting
Supporting multiple-domain goals, and social goals
Addressing the theoretical gap of technologies for behavior change and their interventions

Theme descriptions can be accessed here

📄 The workshop paper can be accessed here.

This diagram presents the two research areas in HCI - personal informatics and behaviour change, followed by a third area on which the field is based in - goal research in psychology

Calling for contributions

We invite researchers, designers, and developers working on personal informatics, or technologies for behavior change, and with interest in developing more effective interventions targeting both qualitative and quantitative goals to contribute to this workshop. Its aim is to further support the community of researchers, designers and developers interested in goal related technologies for behavior change, and their interventions.

We welcome single-column SIGCHI submissions, up to 3 pages long (excluding references) describing conceptual designs for interventions supporting both qualitative and quantitative goals, theoretical perspectives informing such design, as well as novel design methods and tools supporting them. All submissions must comply with SIGCHI accessibility guidelines.

Deadline for paper submissions: 24 October 2025

Notification: 31 October 2025

Please send PDF submissions to s.lolla@lancaster.ac.uk with subject line 'BCS HCI 25 Beyond Quantitative Goals'

BCS HCI 2025

Location: Cardiff University, UK (Getting there)

In-person Workshop date: 9 Nov 2025

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