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Willpower Challenge Tasks: Introduction & Goal Setting

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CS-486: Interaction design

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This lecture introduces willpower challenge tasks, explaining the need for effort and behavior adjustment to achieve them. It covers intrinsic vs. extrinsic challenges, acceptance processes, the trans-theoretical model, and the importance of goal setting in task performance.

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Pearl Pu Faltings

Expertise Human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, user experience research, user modeling, preference-based search, intelligent user interfaces, information visualization. Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Denis Lalanne, Georgios Melissargos, Frank Paul Janecek, Li Chen, Jiyong Zhang, Nicolas Jones, Rong Hu, Yu Chen, Valentina Sintsova, Onur Yürüten, Yubo Xie, Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Kalpani Anuradha Welivita Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Marina Boia, Igor Kulev Courses Interaction

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