[Context and Motivation] RE presents several challenges and risks stemming from the required collaboration and knowledge transfer between many different stakeholders, including analysts, developers and customers. [Objectives] This research aims to address these challenges by developing a gamification framework for enhancing motivation among professional software developers and analysts, to perf...

Gamification is the concept of applying game mechanics and game design techniques to engage and motivate people to achieve their goals. This paper aims to make a systematic review of gamification techniques implemented in the development of educational applications and the implementation or interaction with other technologies such as serious games. The importance of this research is because gam...

This paper measures flow in the context of gamification and investigates the psychometric properties of the Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (DFS-2). We employ data gathered from users of an exercise gamification service (N = 200). The results show that the original DFS-2 factorial structure does result in a similar model fit as the original work. However, we also present a factorial respecification ...

Gamification is the application of game mechanics, such as leader boards, badges or achievement points, in non-gaming environments with the aim to increase user engagement, data quality or cost effectiveness. A core aspect of gamification solutions is to infuse intrinsic motivations to participate by leveraging people’s natural desires for achievement and competition. While gamification, on the...

Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management Abstract: Gamification purports that the main appeal of video games are game mechanics. Gamification asserts that these mechanics, which include points, badges, levels, etc., can be excised from video games and used to motivate people to perform tasks outside the realm of traditional video games. This paper challenges these claims by arguing tha...

Online surveys are an important means of data collection in marketing and research, but conventional survey designs are often perceived as dull and unengaging, resulting in negative respondent behavior. Gamification has been proposed to make online surveys more pleasant to fill and, consequently, to improve the quality of survey results. This work applied gamification to an existing survey targ...

The e-book industry is reshaping the norm of traditional book publishing and most publishing houses are concentrating their efforts in digital, in order to satisfy new market needs and capture significant market share. Currently, one of out of five e-books sold, are children-related and overall, the e-book industry is projected to be valued at $18.9 billion by 2018. Nevertheless, the increased ...

Ces dernières années deux expressions relatives à l’utilisation partielle ou complète d’éléments issus des jeux dans des contextes non ludiques ont vu le jour. Ces expressions sont celles de serious game et de gamification. Un serious game ou jeu sérieux est un jeu développé à des fins professionnelles qui utilise une interface ludique pour atteindre des objectifs professionnels. La gamificatio...

BACKGROUND Telemedicine can alleviate the increasing demand for elderly care caused by the rapidly aging population. However, user adherence to technology in telemedicine interventions is low and decreases over time. Therefore, there is a need for methods to increase adherence, specifically of the elderly user. A strategy that has recently emerged to address this problem is gamification. It is ...

Gamification is an interesting and relatively new concept. The concept of Gamification is more than just game playing; it is about introducing game design elements in a proper way to satisfy individual motivational needs according to personality traits. Researcher and Educators are currently looking at Gamification to deal with the problem of learner engagement and motivation in Collaborative L...