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Design Games GamificationMarch 31, 20161Comment

Level Up! The role of progression for gameful design

Welcome to the final post in this series focused on better understanding some of the most widely used gameful design elements! This post will address progression, one of the basic design elements to help foster users’ intrinsic motivation from competence and mastery. If you…

Design Games GamificationMarch 9, 20162Comments

I’m in it for the prize! The role of rewards for gameful design

In my previous post, I talked about the important role of challenge as an element for gameful design. Today I will talk about rewards, a game element that is present in many gameful applications. But before you continue, if you did not read part…

Design Games GamificationFebruary 25, 20168Comments

Challenge Accepted! The role of challenge for gameful design

There are dozens of different game elements that can be employed for gameful design, from the most well-known points, badges, and leaderboards, to levels and progression, social interaction, competition, rewards, and many others. But there is one important game element that is perhaps underestimated: …

Games Gamification HCIFebruary 11, 20160Comments

Personalization in Serious Games and Gamified Applications

Personalization in serious games and gamified applications is a new and important research field with several questions that still need to be investigated. Results from initial research suggest that is very important to personalize serious games, but it is yet not clear how to do…

Games Gamification HealthJanuary 31, 20160Comments

4 Interesting Research Informed Games for Health

A profusion of gamified applications and games for health exist or are being developed every day. However, not all of them are informed by quality theoretical or practical research in order to establish the effectiveness of such applications in achieving the proposed goals. Last Fall I had the opportunity…

Gamification NewsDecember 22, 20150Comments

Gamification Highlights of 2015

This year brought us many interesting advancements on the field of Gamification! With so much happening, I will not try to compile a comprehensive list of the best news we had this year, but I would love to highlight some of the facts that were…

Book Review GamificationDecember 22, 20152Comments

Actionable Gamification: a guide to better design

In one of my previous book reviews, I argue that Gamification is becoming every day more common, however, many implementations are not as successful as others. I have seen many gamification projects that keep users engaged for a very little time, probably just…

Book Review GamificationNovember 25, 20153Comments

A Super Better Gameful Life

Jane McGonigal is a pioneer in studying the use of games and game-inspired ideas to improve human life. Her first book, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Penguin Books, 2011) is a bestseller that has inspired…

Conferences Games Gamification HCIOctober 27, 20150Comments

CHI PLAY 2015: HCI, Games, and Gamification

A few weeks ago I attended CHI PLAY 2015, the second edition of the ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. CHI PLAY is an international and interdisciplinary conference for researchers and professionals of all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction, which…

Book Review GamificationOctober 22, 20151Comment

Ninja Gamification and Motivational Design

As the use of Gamification in many different domains becomes each day more common, a number of different people become involved in its practice and a diversity of new solutions are created each day. However, we can observe that there seem to be as many…

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