Helping students and young professionals create a balanced lifestyle focusing on personal growth, continuous learning, and self-care
At Gameful Bits, our digital tools, resources, and learning materials use gameful design to help you organize your life, boost your learning capacity, and develop essential skills for a balanced and thriving life in a fun, positive, and engaging way.
Gameful Bits is operated by Dr. Gustavo Tondello, a gamification specialist, software engineer, researcher, and consultant.
If you want to apply gamification to your product or lifestyle, I can help you design personalized gameful solutions to create more engaging applications and experiences.
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The Theoretical Basis of User Types: My review of the article recently published in IJHCS
A team of researchers from German, Finnish, and Canadian Universities, led by Dr. Jeanine Kirchner-Krath, recently published the interesting article Uncovering the theoretical basis of user types: An empirical analysis and critical discussion of user typologies in research on tailored gameful design.
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Classifying User Preferences for Groups of Gameful Design Elements
I have previously described my research that results in the creation of the Groups of Gameful Design Elements. If you're not familiar with it yet, I highly recommend reading the three-post series starting with the one linked in the previous sentence. In my work, I…