Despite a large body of research on motivation in psychology, few in information systems have related it to the information and communication technology acceptance research. This study investigates the relation between the Self-Determination Theory of Motivation and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Model and confirms significant relationship across the two theories...

In this paper we will discribe a system that motivates robots with a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic sources of motivation. The system is based on reinforcement learning, and uses neural networks to predict the effects of the robot’s actions on the environment and rewarding it for improvement in predictions, while also granting other extrinsic rewards for specific actions. We then test t...

Paid crowdsourcing platforms, which harness the extrinsic motivation of monetary compensation, are seeing increased usage for design feedback tasks, but the low quality of design feedback from crowdsourced workers continues to be a problem for designers. Intrinsic motivation has the potential to increase the quality of worker responses, but is difficult to elicit in paid workers. In this paper,...

Intrinsic motivation is a crucial mechanism for open-ended cognitive development since it is the driver of spontaneous exploration and curiosity. Yet, it has so far only been conceptualized in ad hoc manners in the epigenetic robotics community. After reviewing different approaches to intrinsic motivation in psychology, this paper presents a unified definition of intrinsic motivation, based on ...

If a person who is intrinsically motivated to perform an activity begins to receive external reinforcement for the activity, what will happen to his intrinsic motivation? Previous studies and the present study indicate that money decreases intrinsic motivation, while verbal reinforcements tend to enhance intrinsic motivation. The beginning of a cognitive evaluation theory is discussed, and an a...

One of the remarkable feats of intelligent life is that it restructures the world it lives in for its own benefit. Beavers build dams for shelter and to produce better hunting grounds, bees build hives for shelter and storage, humans have transformed the world in a multitude of ways. Intelligence is not only the ability to produce the right reaction to a randomly changing environment, but is al...

Motivation is a key factor in human learning. We learn best when we are highly motivated to learn. Psychologists distinguish between extrinsically-motivated behavior, which is behavior undertaken to achieve some externally supplied reward, such as a prize, a high grade, or a high-paying job, and intrinsically-motivated behavior, which is behavior done for its own sake. Is there an analogous dis...

Abstract Objective Purpose. Daily physical activity (PA) is effective in supporting cognitive and health. However, many Canadians do not meet the public health recommendation of at least 150 mins/week moderate-to-vigorous PA. The current study examined individual differences traits such as motivation (intrinsic-IM, extrinsic-EM), competitiveness, well executive abilities (strategic planning; SP...