Motivation and social interaction are two core concepts in psychology that are seldom considered together in HCI. I will describe interdisciplinary research that aims to design tailored human-computer interactions that either motivate users to interact with others,  or support interactions that aim to motivate users (e.g., motivational technologies for sports and physical activity). I will explain the individual differences we have observed and how these individual differences may help researchers to better understand users and to provide them with tailored, motivational, and social interactions.

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Jean-Claude Martin is professor at Université Paris-Saclay, France, in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction. He is the head of the research team “Cognition Perception and Use” at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Information Technologies (LISN). He conducts research on adapting and combining psychological theories with user centered design approaches to design human-computer interactions for social skills training and motivation for physical activity. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI). He supervised 21 PhD theses.