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.
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: 4 August 2025
Notification: 18 August 2025
Please send PDF submissions to s.lolla@lancaster.ac.uk with subject line 'BCS HCI 25 Beyond Quantitative Goals'
Location: Cardiff University, UK (Getting there)
Workshop date: 9 Nov 2025
Conference dates: 8-11 Nov 2025