Researchers at Brigham Young University did an extensive study on different fitness apps; downloading and trying out 132 apps to examine how they worked and what techniques they used to motivate their users. What they discovered has sparked an interesting debate. Are “health games” that utilize gamification helpful or hindering users’ fitness goals? As an example,…
GSummit SF 2014 was a resounding success and it is thanks to our awesome community. As it is our mission here at Gamification Co to proliferate the latest and greatest knowledge about the gamification industry, we have begun releasing all of our videos from GSummit SF 2014.
We’ll be posting each of the new releases on our blog but if you want to get each of them immediately, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get each video as they come.
To kick off our video series, we have Brian Burke, Research Vice President at Gartner shares his thought why organizations need to re-evaluate how they engage and motivate their key communities and what lies ahead for the future of gamification.
Last time, we featured chief reporter on People and Power from Al Jazeera English, Juliana Ruhfus in discussing the current affairs program’s interactive documentary, Pirate Fishing. Blending investigative journalism practices with gamification mechanics, the interactive tool introduces users about the multi-million dollar illegal fishing trade affecting West Africa’s poorest people.
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Students sit through hours and hours of boring and unengaging lectures. Professors ramble on to an audience of students sleepily typing away on their smart phones while checking Facebook, Twitter and pretty much anything else that has nothing to do with the lecture. How do we fix this? Enter Labster! Founded in 2010, Labster (@labster)…
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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