Gustavo Tondello | Gameful Bits

Gamification Health ResearchAugust 18, 20171Comment

The motivational impact of gameful fitness trackers

Many researchers and practitioners have been saying for some time that the most simplistic gamification implementations might lead to short-term engagement, but actually hurt long-term motivation and engagement. However, we still don't have many controlled studies presenting evidence of this phenomenon and explaining why it…

Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceMay 4, 20171Comment

Gameful Design Heuristics

Although many gameful design methods have emerged recently, designers still lack standard evaluation methods for evaluating gameful design. For other established areas of UX, heuristic evaluation methods are commonly used. In usability engineering, heuristics are general principles or broad usability guidelines that have been used…

Design Gamification HCI User ExperienceMarch 25, 20170Comments

Designing for Motivation

Gameful Design (gamification) has been an increasingly popular approach for improving the user's motivation and experience when interacting with digital applications. As a result, the number of gameful designers has been steadily increasing in the past years, as well as the reports of successful projects…

Games Gamification HCI ResearchFebruary 26, 20170Comments

Collection Interfaces for Digital Game Objects

Originally published by the HCI Games Group. Sample favourite digital game objects. Please see the linked original publication for credits. The HCI Games Group collaborated with a research project that also involved the Play & Interactive Experiences for Learning Lab at the New Mexico State University and…

Design GamificationJanuary 26, 20176Comments

Gamification vs Gameful Design: why does it matter?

There have been so many discussions about the terms gamification and gameful design that I was avoiding posting about them until now. But now I felt like giving my contribution and trying to help differentiate both terms and discuss why the difference matters. Despite everything that…

Education Gamification HCI HealthDecember 26, 20160Comments

Gamification Highlights of 2016

A collection of some of the most relevant publications and news of 2016 related to Gamification -- from the point of view of an HCI researcher. Note: all the slides have links to the publications; if they are not working on SlideShare, please download…

Education GamificationNovember 22, 20161Comment

Lessons learned from a gamified course experience

Yesterday I published a review of a paper on gamified university-level education. Today, I am going to present some lessons learned from my own experience gamifying a university course. Last Spring I had the opportunity to teach a course on Business Systems Analysis at the…

Education Games HCINovember 21, 20161Comment

How do students differ in gamified education?

Originally published in the ACM XRDS blog. Gamification of University-level courses is becoming a common practice, as many professors decide to try offering their students a more engaging learning environment. Nevertheless, we still do not have a clear idea on how individual students engage differently with…

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…