Sokobond: Teaching Chemistry Through Games
Gamification is fun even with the most serious games. Learning through games is as interactive and entertaining as it gets, and Sokobond is no different.
July 2015
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Hyatt Reservation Center Boosts Employee Productivity with Gamification
Sitting in a call center taking and making calls is the kind of job that many people find repetitive and boring. But at one major American company, an entire department plays games on company time and does so with the full knowledge and consent of management. That company is the Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Encouraging employees to play games, the company found, improved employee engagement in the work by setting goals, which in turn, boosted their productivity.
CyberDoctor Gamifies Medication Regimen With Novel Mobile App
As patients take more pills, tracking that medication and staying on the pill schedule gets harder and harder. There’s no shortage of mobile apps that aim to help patients stick to the drug regimen. But many of these apps feel punitive. After all, an alarm or warning that you haven’t yet taken your meds can feel more like medication compliance by punishment. It doesn’t have to be that way. A gamification startup has developed a mobile app that encourages medication compliance by turning the mundane drug regimen into an engaging game.
Reliving WWI Flight History with Mobile Gamification App: Ace Academy
For many students, a field trip to the museum is a break from the classroom but to others it’s not much more fun than school. However, mobile gamification apps can give students a real escape while engaging them in the subject matter of the museum. These apps can turn museum visits into interactive adventures. Canada Aviation and Space Museum’s Ace Academy is one of these apps. It takes a visitor on a “time-trip” to World War I flight navigation training.
DirecTV Gamifies Failure Into A Training Success
Playing games is fun, but people also driven to play games because they want to win. Businesses have found different ways to gamify employee training. But DirecTV is taking a counterintuitive approach that uses gamification to celebrate failure. And it’s working.
Educational Games: Approaching Controversial Topics with Care
While educational games have a history of contributing positively to student learning, there are cases where something developers perhaps should not have turned into a game. The recent flak over Mission US: Flight to Freedom illustrates the point.
DevHub: Developing Consumer Engagement Through Gamification
DevHub is a platform where consumers can build websites and make money for their work. It had “over 300,000 sites built on the platform by the end of 2009” and is still recognized as a leader in website building and monetization. Their long term success is credited to solving a few core problems by implementing gamification.
Nintendo’s Amiibos: A Valuable Lesson in Customer Loyalty
Not everyone can create custom content that links back to a brand. A great example of loyal customers who love their company: Nintendo. Nintendo gamers love to riff, spin-off, and make YouTube videos about Nintendo products.
Duolingo: Game Based Learning of Languages
Imagine learning in 34 hours what would traditionally take an entire semester. Duolingo, a game based language-learning program, provides a platform for doing just that.
Does Gamification Work? Recent Empirical Study Shows Positive Results
Gamification continues to grow in popularity as an innovative solution to problems in a wide variety of fields from education to healthcare. This rising interest has led to a number of published academic studies all asking the same question: Does gamification really work?
Gamified Airport Experience Survey with Beat LAX Traffic
LAX, Los Angeles International Airport is currently undergoing a major renovation project to overhaul its current layout of getting in and out of the airport terminal. The massive project potential involves reconstructing parking garages, developing a light rail line system and car rentals. Critical decisions will be made throughout the lengthy duration of the project and those decisions needs to be backed by statistical data. Instead of using traditional surveys, LAX has opted for an interactive gamified survey experience, Beat LAX Traffic.
What Made the 90s the Golden Age of Educational Games?
Games in education is a hot topic these days. Teachers are trying to figure out how to use video games to benefit the education of their students. That’s difficult when entertainment games and educational games seem to exist as separate industries catering to separate worlds. But somehow, it worked in the 90s.