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Conferences Gamification HCI ResearchOctober 24, 20160Comments

12 Findings for Gamification from CHI PLAY 2016

CHI PLAY 2016, the ACM Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, happened last week and made available a lot of interesting research in games, play, and gamification. I have made a compilation of 12 of the relevant findings for future Gamification design and research. Check them…

Games Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceOctober 5, 20160Comments

The peak-end rule influences enjoyment of games

The peak-end rule is a psychological heuristic that explains how people judge an experience largely based on its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and its end, rather on the whole experience. A research from the Universities of Saskatchewan and Canterbury and Autodesk sought to…

Games Gamification HCI ResearchSeptember 30, 20160Comments

Understanding How the Context Supports Autonomy

Self-determination theory posits autonomy as a basic need that fuels intrinsic motivation. Thus, we consider it an important characteristic of intrinsically enjoyable tasks, including games. We often say that game playing is a voluntary activity. However, when we think about serious games or gamification, there…

Design Games GamificationSeptember 17, 20160Comments

Defining Clear Goals in Gameful Applications

I have previously talked about the prominent role of challenges in games and gameful applications. Challenging oneself to overcome unnecessary obstacles just for the fun of it is at the heart of a gameful experience. Moreover, good challenges only work together with clear goals and…

Gamification HCI ResearchSeptember 14, 20164Comments

The Gamification User Types Hexad Scale

Several studies have indicated the need for personalising gamified systems to users’ personalities. However, mapping user personality onto design elements is difficult. To address this problem, Marczewski developed the Gamification User Types Hexad framework, based on research on human motivation, player types, and practical design…

Gamification HCIAugust 23, 20160Comments

Positive Computing: a novel research field to promote human wellbeing

Originally published on the ACM XRDS blog. Technology has undoubtedly improved at vertiginous speeds in the last decades. However, there is no evidence that all this technology is helping increase the people's general wellbeing. Calvo and Peters have attributed this to the fact that most…

Gamification HCIAugust 20, 20163Comments

Personality-targeted Gamification

Recently, a number of research studies have been investigating how to personalize gameful applications to each different user. One of these studies was presented at CHI 2016 and investigated how different people respond to various gamification approaches in health-related habit tracking applications. The researchers asked…

Gamification Health NewsJuly 23, 20160Comments

Gamification of Cognitive Assessment and Training

The JMIR Serious Games journal has recently published an article in which researchers reviewed 33 studies reporting results of the use of gamification and serious games for cognitive assessment or training. Image source: Wooden Earth The review identified 7 reasons that led researchers to apply gamification…

Games Gamification NewsJuly 14, 20166Comments

Pokémon GO is not Gamification! (It’s a game!)

During the past week, considerable attention has been given in the media to Niantic's new game, Pokémon GO! Lots of people are talking about the game's potential benefits and dangers. One of the many claims that have taken the media is that Pokémon GO is…

Design GamificationJuly 14, 20160Comments

Gamification: An Introduction slide deck

An introduction to gamification with examples of applications, platforms, and methods. I put these slides together for a lecture I've given at the University of Waterloo, July 2016.

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