User experience predicts the effectiveness of a gamified recovery app: Investigation of Holidaily—an app promoting recovery behavior after vacation and during daily working life

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User experience predicts the effectiveness of a gamified recovery app: Investigation of Holidaily—an app promoting recovery behavior after vacation and during daily working life. / Smyth, Alexandra; Syrek, Christine; Reins, Jo Annika et al.
in: Pravention und Gesundheitsforderung, Jahrgang 13, Nr. 4, 01.11.2018, S. 319-326.

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title = "User experience predicts the effectiveness of a gamified recovery app: Investigation of Holidaily—an app promoting recovery behavior after vacation and during daily working life",
abstract = "Background: Previous studies have demonstrated that vacations help workers recover from occupational stress, but this effect typically fades within 2 weeks of returning to work. To proactively reduce occupational stress, regular engagement in recreational activities is vital. During vacations, workers intuitively engage in recovery behaviors. The gamified smartphone application (app), Holidaily, was developed to encourage workers to engage in recreational activities during and beyond their vacation and integrate them into daily working life. To date, evidence is scarce on whether vacation-related recovery can be enhanced with a gamified app and whether the user experience (UX) of an app can significantly impact health. Objectives: This study examined whether UX of a gamified app predicts users{\textquoteright} improvement in recovery from work-related stress. Methods: Data were gathered from 171 Holidaily users, levels of recovery assessed 2 weeks pre- and post-vacation. The relationship between UX and change in recovery were examined by regression analysis. Results: Holidaily users experienced substantially prolonged recovery, where the apps UX uniquely predicted recovery. This improvement could not be explained by sociodemographic or work-related variables, vacation length or pre-vacation level of depression. Conclusions: Our findings support prior research demonstrating the effectiveness of apps promoting psychological health and are the first to reveal an app{\textquoteright}s effectiveness augmenting recovery from work-related stress. Findings also highlight that the health effectiveness of an app is dependent on its UX.",
keywords = "Digital media, Recovery, Occupational e‑mental health, User experiences, Gamification, Vacation, User Experience, Gamifakation, Urlaub, Psychology, Erholung, berufliche e-Mental Health, Health sciences",
author = "Alexandra Smyth and Christine Syrek and Reins, {Jo Annika} and Markus Domin and Monique Janneck and Dirk Lehr",
year = "2018",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s11553-018-0664-z",
language = "English",
volume = "13",
pages = "319--326",
journal = "Pravention und Gesundheitsforderung",
issn = "1861-6755",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "4",

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T1 - User experience predicts the effectiveness of a gamified recovery app

T2 - Investigation of Holidaily—an app promoting recovery behavior after vacation and during daily working life

AU - Smyth, Alexandra

AU - Syrek, Christine

AU - Reins, Jo Annika

AU - Domin, Markus

AU - Janneck, Monique

AU - Lehr, Dirk

PY - 2018/11/1

Y1 - 2018/11/1

N2 - Background: Previous studies have demonstrated that vacations help workers recover from occupational stress, but this effect typically fades within 2 weeks of returning to work. To proactively reduce occupational stress, regular engagement in recreational activities is vital. During vacations, workers intuitively engage in recovery behaviors. The gamified smartphone application (app), Holidaily, was developed to encourage workers to engage in recreational activities during and beyond their vacation and integrate them into daily working life. To date, evidence is scarce on whether vacation-related recovery can be enhanced with a gamified app and whether the user experience (UX) of an app can significantly impact health. Objectives: This study examined whether UX of a gamified app predicts users’ improvement in recovery from work-related stress. Methods: Data were gathered from 171 Holidaily users, levels of recovery assessed 2 weeks pre- and post-vacation. The relationship between UX and change in recovery were examined by regression analysis. Results: Holidaily users experienced substantially prolonged recovery, where the apps UX uniquely predicted recovery. This improvement could not be explained by sociodemographic or work-related variables, vacation length or pre-vacation level of depression. Conclusions: Our findings support prior research demonstrating the effectiveness of apps promoting psychological health and are the first to reveal an app’s effectiveness augmenting recovery from work-related stress. Findings also highlight that the health effectiveness of an app is dependent on its UX.

AB - Background: Previous studies have demonstrated that vacations help workers recover from occupational stress, but this effect typically fades within 2 weeks of returning to work. To proactively reduce occupational stress, regular engagement in recreational activities is vital. During vacations, workers intuitively engage in recovery behaviors. The gamified smartphone application (app), Holidaily, was developed to encourage workers to engage in recreational activities during and beyond their vacation and integrate them into daily working life. To date, evidence is scarce on whether vacation-related recovery can be enhanced with a gamified app and whether the user experience (UX) of an app can significantly impact health. Objectives: This study examined whether UX of a gamified app predicts users’ improvement in recovery from work-related stress. Methods: Data were gathered from 171 Holidaily users, levels of recovery assessed 2 weeks pre- and post-vacation. The relationship between UX and change in recovery were examined by regression analysis. Results: Holidaily users experienced substantially prolonged recovery, where the apps UX uniquely predicted recovery. This improvement could not be explained by sociodemographic or work-related variables, vacation length or pre-vacation level of depression. Conclusions: Our findings support prior research demonstrating the effectiveness of apps promoting psychological health and are the first to reveal an app’s effectiveness augmenting recovery from work-related stress. Findings also highlight that the health effectiveness of an app is dependent on its UX.

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KW - Recovery

KW - Occupational e‑mental health

KW - User experiences

KW - Gamification

KW - Vacation

KW - User Experience

KW - Gamifakation

KW - Urlaub

KW - Psychology

KW - Erholung

KW - berufliche e-Mental Health

KW - Health sciences

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VL - 13

SP - 319

EP - 326

JO - Pravention und Gesundheitsforderung

JF - Pravention und Gesundheitsforderung

SN - 1861-6755

IS - 4

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