HCI, Gameful Bits, Page 3

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…

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.

Design HCI User ExperienceJuly 7, 20160Comments

Momentary Pleasure or Lasting Meaning in Interactive Technologies

A research project from the Universities of Basel and Copenhagen sought to understand the differences between momentary pleasure and lasting meaning in positive experiences with interactive technologies. These ideas come from a long tradition in both history and user experience research. Momentary pleasurable experiences…

Gamification HCIApril 26, 20161Comment

An Introduction to Gamification in Human-Computer Interaction

Originally published on the ACM XRDS blog. User experience (UX) is a field within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that studies the whole experience of a user with a product, system, or service. UX focuses on issues such as usability, ergonomics, cognitive load, and affective…

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…

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