Motivation Restoration
A short interaction intended to restore the user's motivation and positive mood after a dip. Distinguished from ongoing encouragement by its brief, bounded, restorative character.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence would be coded when, following a user signal of low motivation or mood, a brief AI intervention (one to two turns) is followed by a user signal of restored willingness to continue (e.g. 'ok, let's keep going'). The intervention-plus-recovery pair is the unit counted.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Pre/post single-item mood-and-motivation self-report (e.g. a 1-7 'ready to continue' rating) bracketing the intervention; effect quantified as the within-user pre-to-post change. Complementary behavioural index: whether the user resumed the task within two turns. Could be reported as mean motivation gain and resumption rate.