From the Boy Scouts to the Army, badges have long been used to celebrate moments, commemorate events, and challenge people to accomplish particular goals. As the Internet came to dominate the world and video gaming became a multi-billion-dollar industry, certain websites and games began to replicate real-world badges into their digital offerings. Casual and serious…
In his presentation at America’s Customer Festival 2014, Jerry Filipiak, CEO of Comarch Inc., described the Internet of Things (IoT) as “the marketing of hope,” meaning the technology’s success will come from guiding users through various journeys fueled by hope. Journey + Hope + Reward = Rich User Experience Any given customer’s purchases…
Anyone who experiences incontinence knows that it’s no fun. Leaky bladders can be an embarrasing problem. Kegel exercises can help strengthen the internal muscles that help with bladder control, but some women find them boring. Now a game developer have comeup with an answer – a video game that turns kegels into a game in health….
A new tactile, highly immersive and gamified approach to education has been created by a British company, 4D Creative. The concept combines wireless LED lighting, a Bose sound system and large-scale projection, all operated via an iPad. Images can be projected on the walls of self-inflating pods that students enter. The system can be set…
The human body’s immune system works as a complex network whose different parts coordinate to fight off a wide range of threatening pathogens. But educators run into challenges bringing textbook teaching about the immune system to life. Ink and paper just don’t do justice to explain the complexity and the interactivity of the immune system…
Last time, we featured Innovative Educational Ideas(IEI) director, Bron Stuckey in discussing about the current perceptions of gamification and the growing number of recent gamification initiatives by educators in the education space.
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Since gamification has come to the fore as an individual technology, the words “motivation” and “engagement” have been used to describe its effect on users. Of course, motivation and engagement are two powerful influencers of behavior, but as Lithium’s Dr. Michael Wu pointed out in an interview at this year’s GSummit, gamification may be focusing…
Love ’em or hate ’em, common core state standards are now a reality for most teachers. The standards are designed to insure students have the foundation to think critically and meet the rigorous demands of college. There’s also an impetus to make sure schools are preparing kids to compete in a global marketplace. Teachers often…
How important is customer loyalty to your business? According to an article on the impact of customer loyalty, “Companies that lead their markets in customer loyalty generate operating margins of 13%, while laggards had margins of just 2%.“ What creates customer loyalty? According to the Lacek Group in another article, the key is having a relevant…
“It turns out video games are just a Trojan horse for studying interest-driven learning” – Constance Steinkeuhler Jesse Schell lead the development of an educational game called Lexicawith the goal of developing life-long habits of reading in children. Lexicais set up as an action game, and in order to progress in the video game the…
We last featured PhD student Elisa Mekler from the Center of Cognitive Psychology and Methodology at the University of Basel to discuss her 2013 research paper on whether gamification elements such as points, levels and leaderboards undermine user’s intrinsic motivation. The results garnered from the study was profoundly surprising as empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis was lacking prior to the research.
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“Reveal the Game” was developed by L’Oreal to help applicants challenge themselves in the development of a new product launch using a real-world scenario. Applicants can compete with each other and share results via social media. For recruiters, it is a great way to gauge actually performance and recruit the best. According to a…
Sarah Lawrence College is not known for its sciences programs. A liberal arts school with a reputation of being a haven for artists and writers, even the brochures keep mentions of the natural sciences to a minimum. And yet it is here that I took one of the most interesting and engaging science classes in…
The Internet of Things (IoT) can be defined as the digitizing of reality, the connectedness of the real world, the online extension of … everything. Simply put, IoT is the concept of smart devices interacting with one another through an online connection. IoT technology is not necessarily new in theory or practice: uniquely-identified devices have…
