Last time, I have written about the results of a research study showing that non-personalized goals and competition in fitness trackers can harm teenagers' intrinsic motivation to do physical activity. Reinforcing this fact, another recent study demonstrates that adaptive goals outperform static goals when encouraging…
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…
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.
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The JMIR Serious Games journal has recently published an article in which researchers reviewed 33 studies reporting results of the use of gamification and serious games for cognitive assessment or training.
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The review identified 7 reasons that led researchers to apply gamification…
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…