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MotivAider
The ultimate tool for people who are serious
about changing their own behavior and habits
USER'S GUIDE
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CONTENTS
Introduction
The MotivAider Method
Orientation and Operating Basics
Getting Started
Advanced Settings: An Overview
How to Change the Interval Type *
How to Customize the Vibration Signal *
How to Change What Appears on The Screen During
Prompting *
How to Set Up a Prompting Session *
How to Create and Manage User Profiles *
How to Restore All Original Settings *
How to Prevent Unwanted Access to Advanced Settings *
How to Pause and Resume Prompting *
Installing and Removing the Belt Clip
About the Battery
Warranty
Support
Contact Us
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- Page 1 CONTENTS Gen5 Introduction MotivAider ® The MotivAider Method Orientation and Operating Basics Getting Started Advanced Settings: An Overview How to Change the Interval Type * How to Customize the Vibration Signal * How to Change What Appears on The Screen During Prompting * How to Set Up a Prompting Session * How to Create and Manage User Profiles *...
- Page 2 Orientation and Operating Basics The Gen5 MotivAider has advanced features and capabilities that make it ideal not only for Getting Started individuals who wish to change their own behavior and habits, but also for teachers, behavior...
- Page 3 The MotivAider Method (1) Decide on a specific behavioral objective or goal. (2) Determine what action you must take to achieve that behavioral objective or goal. (3) Devise a brief personal message ─ a word, a phrase, a short sentence, even a mental picture ─...
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Page 4: Basic Operation
Basic Operation Video First, don’t be alarmed if the screen goes blank. To conserve battery power, your MotivAider is designed to automatically go to “sleep” when there’s no activity for approximately 15 seconds. To wake it up, just hold down the Mode (M) key for a couple of seconds or more. You’re now at the HOME screen. -
Page 5: Getting Started
Getting Started Before using the MotivAider the first time, and every few weeks thereafter, please check to make sure that the Phillips head screw that holds the removable metal belt clip in place is as tight as it can be. Once you’ve decided on a specific behavioral objective or goal, determined what action you must take to achieve that behavioral objective or goal, and devised a brief personal message that will remind and motivate you to take that action, you’re ready to mentally associate your personal... -
Page 6: Advanced Settings
Advanced Settings * Video Here’s an overview of how to make changes in the MotivAider’s Advanced Settings: 1. From the HOME screen, press and release M to access the Advanced Settings menu. Use the +> key to scroll through the available setting categories, which include INTERVAL, SIGNAL, SCREEN, AUTO, USERS and UTILITY. - Page 7 How to Change the Interval Type * Video Your MotivAider is capable of sending signals at regular, average or random intervals. • Select REGULAR to receive prompts at uniform intervals, such as every 10 minutes. • Select AVERAGE to receive prompts at intervals that vary in length from half as long to twice as long as the interval you enter.
- Page 8 How to Customize the Vibration Signal * Video You can adjust three properties of the vibration signal. • STRENGTH determines the intensity of the vibration signal • LENGTH determines how long each vibration signal lasts • PULSE determines whether each vibration signal consists of a continuous vibration (Pulse OFF) or distinct <...
- Page 9 How to Change What Appears on The Screen During Prompting * Video When the MotivAider is prompting, by default, it will display the amount of time remaining until the next prompt. However, for greater privacy and/or to extend battery life, you can use the HIDE feature to prevent the MotivAider from showing anything at all on the screen while it’s prompting.
- Page 10 How to Set Up a Prompting Session * Video You can use the SESSION feature to have prompting stop on its own after prompting for a desired period of time. For example, suppose you’ve set the MotivAider to send vibration signals every 10 minutes.
- Page 11 How to Create and Manage User Profiles * Video The Gen5 MotivAider allows you to create and manage up to four User Profiles, which are complete collections of settings. You can create distinct user profiles for different individuals who use the same MotivAider, different behavior change projects, different days of the week, different situations (such as work vs.
- Page 12 How to Restore ALL Original Settings * Video RESET allows you to easily restore all factory default settings for all user profiles. To initiate a complete reset, from the HOME screen, press and release M, then use the +> key to scroll to UTILITY.
- Page 13 How to Prevent Unwanted Access to Advanced Settings * Video If you’d like, you can prevent unwanted access to all of the MotivAider’s Advanced Settings. (A teacher, for example, might use this feature when setting up a MotivAider for use by a student.) To enable LOCK, from the HOME screen, hold down TEST and SEL at the same time until “LOCK”...
- Page 14 How to Pause and Resume Prompting * The Gen5 MotivAider allows you to pause and resume the countdown to the next vibration signal. Pause suspends or freezes the countdown. Resume continues the countdown from the point where you suspended it.
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Page 15: Installing And Removing The Belt Clip
Installing and Removing the Belt Clip Video To remove the belt clip, use a screwdriver to loosen the screw that secures the belt clip to the case, then push the clip downward towards the bottom of the case to free the clip. We recommend periodically checking the belt clip screw with a screwdriver to make sure that it's as tight as possible. -
Page 16: About The Battery
About the Battery Video The Gen5 MotivAider comes with a single industrial alkaline AA battery. We recommend that when you replace the included battery you replace it with a longer-lasting 1.5 volt, 3000 mAh AA non- rechargeable lithium battery, such as the Energizer... -
Page 17: Warranty
Warranty Behavioral Dynamics, Inc. warrants the MotivAider® (except battery) to be free of defects in materials and workmanship for a period of three years from the date of purchase. Subject to the conditions below, we will promptly repair or replace (our option) any defective unit that was purchased from us or one of our authorized resellers. - Page 18 How to Customize the Vibration Signal * Web: HabitChange.com How to Change What Appears on The Screen During Mail: Behavioral Dynamics, Inc. Prompting * 202 LaBree Avenue North P.O. Box 66 How to Set Up a Prompting Session * Thief River Falls, MN 56701 How to Create and Manage User Profiles * U.S.A.