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Gamification User Types or Player Traits: When should I use each one of them?

At the HCI Games Group, we have been working for the past few years on two related projects: the validation of the Gamification User Types Hexad and the study of player typologies, which recently led to the creation of our Five-factor Player Traits model. Therefore,…

VideosJune 13, 20191900Views 0Comments

Dynamic Personalization of Gameful Interactive Systems

Gameful design, the process of creating a system with affordances for gameful experiences, can be used to increase user engagement and enjoyment of digital interactive systems. It can also be used to create applications for behaviour change in areas such as health, wellness, education,…

Gamification ResearchJune 1, 20191788Views 0Comments

Interview for GamFed

I was recently featured on an interview for GamFed, the International Gamification Confederation, where I spoke about my research into personalised gameful design, the state of gamification research in general, what we can look forward to, and the role GamFed can play in furthering gamification.…

VideosNovember 15, 20181504Views 0Comments

Doing proper player research in gamification – Professor Game Podcast

Gustavo Tondello is the co-founder and gamification specialist of MotiviUX, research leader at GamFed (the International Gamification Confederation), and a Ph.D. candidate and sessional lecturer at the University of Waterloo, Canada. With more than 10 years of experience in software engineering and business analysis,…

Games Gamification NewsMay 7, 20182180Views 0Comments

Gamification Insights from Professional Development Event in Toronto

Last week, Ryerson University's Chang School of Continuing Education organized a one-day professional development and networking event in Toronto, Canada. The event focused on serious games and gamification for three specific application areas: higher education, healthcare, and corporate. Several dozens of attendees spent the day…

VideosMarch 11, 20181601Views 0Comments

Personalizing Persuasive Technologies – 2018 University of Waterloo Math 3MT

How can we design persuasive and gameful technologies that can motivate different types of users to achieve their goals? This presentation summarizes the topic of my Ph.D. Research at the HCI Games Group, University of Waterloo. Presented at the 2018 University of Waterloo 3MT…

Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceFebruary 28, 20183412Views 0Comments

Understanding Gamification Through Goal-Setting Theory

Goal-setting theory has been used for decades to explain how to motivate people to perform better in work-related tasks by setting and monitoring goals. Gamification is also inherently a goal-oriented activity, aimed at fostering motivation; therefore, it is logic to expect that these two practices would…

Gamification NewsFebruary 5, 20184452Views 0Comments

Octalysis Prime: a gameful journey to learn gamification

Octalysis Prime, the "gamified mentorship journey with Yu-kai Chou", was officially launched this February 1st, 2018. Octalysis Prime is a comprehensive platform aimed at teaching gamification and related concepts and practices. It is structured in the format of a real-life RPG (role-playing game), in which…

Design Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceFebruary 1, 20186572Views 2Comments

Elements of Gameful Design Classified by User Preferences — part 3

See also: Part 1 and Part 2 In part 1, I presented an overview of our research study that classified the most commonly used gameful design elements according to user preferences, and in part 2 I listed which elements make part of each group of user…

Design Gamification HCI Research User ExperienceNovember 13, 20175356Views 1Comment

Elements of Gameful Design Classified by User Preferences — part 2

See also: Part 1 In part 1, I presented an overview of our research study that classified the most commonly used gameful design elements according to user preferences: Groups of gameful design elements by user preferences. Now, let’s dive into more detail and look at the complete list…