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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. They analyzed and…

Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceFebruary 10, 20221Comment

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…

Gamification NewsJanuary 25, 20220Comments

Meet Metablox, a gameful blockchain app powered by real-life memories

Currently, there are many new applications being developed in the "Web 3.0", which means that they store data in a decentralized way using blockchain technologies. One trend is that of "play-to-earn" games. It is an interesting idea. Because the game objects are on the blockchain…

Games Gamification HCINovember 30, 20210Comments

What is Gamification—and other definitions

Although I have been writing on this blog for several years now, I had not yet attempted to provide a definition of gamification because we already had plenty of definitions out there. But our community was recently challenged by Andrzej Marczewski to re-discuss the existing…

Conferences Education Gamification HCI ResearchNovember 30, 20201Comment

Personalized Gameful Design (Gamification Europe 2020) Q&A

Last week was Gamification Europe 2020, an amazing forum to exchange experiences and learn from what everyone is doing in the gamification world. On the first day of the conference, I gave a talk about Personalized Gameful Design. If you missed it, you can check…

Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceOctober 20, 20200Comments

The Effects of Personalized Gamification on Task Performance

In the latest article I published at Frontiers in Computer Science, titled Validation of User Preferences and Effects of Personalized Gamification on Task Performance, I studied how users would react to being able to customize their gameful experience. Additionally, the study also showed that task…

Design Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceMarch 25, 20200Comments

Points and Rewards in Gameful Design

This week's article brings a detailed review of some of the research about points and rewards in gamification. I started by thinking about points, but then I found it hard to separate them totally from rewards as they are often presented as a form…

Design Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceMarch 3, 20201Comment

Leaderboards in Gameful Design: Their effects, types, and guidelines for their correct use

Like the topic of my previous article (badges), leaderboards are also one of the most used elements in gameful design. But despite the prevalence of leaderboards in gamification, few sources explain exactly what role they fulfill in a gameful system, how users interact with them,…

Design Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceFebruary 20, 20204Comments

Badges in Gameful Design: How users perceive them and how are they motivational

Badges are the most used element in educational gameful design and the third most used element in gamification in general. They have been listed by many different gamification researchers and experts as one of the basic gameful design elements. But do you know exactly what…

Gamification HCI ResearchFebruary 10, 20200Comments

Expanded content on Patreon

One of my goals as a content creator is to help gamification professionals keep up to date with the latest research and help them find the takeaways to apply the research on their daily practice. Therefore, many of my blog posts are summaries of…

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