Motivation Recovery
A targeted restoration of the user's motivation following frustration or exhaustion during an interaction. Distinguished from general encouragement by its placement after an explicit motivational low and its restorative intent.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence would be coded when, after a user signal of frustration or exhaustion, an intervention is followed by a user signal of recovered drive to continue the task. The low-signal, intervention, recovery-signal sequence is the unit counted.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Pre/post single-item motivation self-report (1-7 'drive to continue') bracketing the intervention; effect quantified as within-user change, with a behavioural check on whether the task resumed. Could be reported as mean motivation recovery and resumption rate. (Distinguished from AUG-1044 by requiring an explicit frustration/exhaustion antecedent rather than a general mood dip.)