Enhancing user engagement

Beyond gamification: Enhancing user engagement through meaningful game elements

This research, through an ethnographic approach, has the aim to find digital game design elements, that could contribute to engage users deeply even in non recreational contexts, such as the Quantified Self services.

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

Evaluating User Engagement Theory

A variety of views of User Experience (UX) have emerged ranging from contextual interpretations of experience to experimental studies. This paper focuses on User Engagement (UE), a restricted explanation of UX that concentrates on judgement of product quality during interaction. It presents a model to explain how users’ judge quality according to criteria such as aesthetics, usability and engag...

Enhancing Personalization and Learner Engagement

Context-aware technologies promise great potential in technology enhanced learning (TEL). However, as transformation arises in educational set up as a result of the use of context-aware technologies, so is the challenge emerging of applying sound pedagogical foundation when employing these technologies. Furthermore, despite the fact that context-aware systems offer potential to cater for differ...

Integrating game elements for increasing engagement and enhancing User Experience in a smart city context

This paper outlines an ongoing project (MITOS), which aims to customize and deploy a software platform providing advanced transportation services in the city of Santander, Spain. The system will be presented with a focus on the design framework and the rationale for evaluating User Experience in such a framework.. Concepts for Future Internet environments, such as participatory sensing, game-in...