363 research outputs found

    GamiFIN Conference 2020

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    In this study, we investigate how users’ general gaming preferences (i.e. on dimensions of achievement, immersion and social orientations) are related to their perception of the (enjoyment, usefulness, ethicalness motivationability and continued use) of different gamification features. The study was amongst 144 students as a vignette study, framed in the context of gamification of the Moodle educational platform. The results show that, while achievement–orientation in gaming preferences is positively associated with perceptions of achievement–related gamification features, immersion and social gaming orientations had little, if any, positive associations with the different perceptions related to gamification features. While the results indicate that achievement-related gamification may be preferred by achievement-oriented players, overall players’ gaming preferences types may not be a comprehensive predictor for gamification preferences.</p

    Gamification with the universal game heuristic to develop a mobile web game for learning Viena Karelian dialect and culture

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    Abstract. Learning Viena Karelian dialect and culture require an innovative approach to increase the willingness of learners to learn in a fun and an effective way. Karelian is an endangered language with only around 35,000 speakers, in contrast with 640,000 people who live in the Republic of Karelia. If the number of speakers slowly decrease every year and there are limited ways to learn, then those problems may lead this endangered language to be extinct in the future. Therefore, gamification approach was used to design and build an educational game from non-gaming contexts. In this research, a functional prototype was built to learn Viena Karelian dialect and culture, where the beginner learners, from English and Finnish speakers, can learn with desktop, tablet, and smartphone devices. Design science research was used as the research method and the universal game heuristic was used as the design cycle. A functional prototype that can be accessed by using web browsers was built with Laravel PHP framework and Bootstrap frontend framework. Learners can play the game and explore various features to learn Viena Karelian dialect and culture. Testing phase was conducted in the 3rd international GamiFIN conference with 38 players and 12 received feedback, and the result shown that the game motivated the test participants to play, with 91.7% positive engagement. The feedback is available for further improvement of Viena game development project and as a foundation to develop similar games for other Karelian dialects and culture

    Possible benefits of gamification for improving surgical patients' quality of care

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    ´This paper considers the potential benefits of gamification from the perspective of surgical patients' quality of care. There is little published data on gamifying the work of healthcare professionals even though the use of serious games in healthcare has been growing. Literature on the quality of care shows that patients are often satisfied with the care they have received. However, research indicates that deficiencies exist in patient education, in patients' opportunities to participate in and have impact on decision making regarding their care, and in prevention and management of complications. Workplace culture is significantly connected with the incidence of patient complications. Gamification of healthcare workers' daily work routines could have positive effects on nurses' ownership and the meaningfulness of their work, and on the prevention and management of complications, which would in turn improve the quality of care for surgical patients. In this paper, a hypothetical gamification case is presented and directions for future research are discussed.Peer reviewe

    Does gamification affect flow experience? A systematic literature review

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    In recent years, studies in different areas have used gamification to improve users' flow experience. However, due to the high variety of the conducted studies and the lack of secondary studies (e.g., systematic literature reviews) in this field, it is difficult to get the state-of-the-art of this research domain. To address this problem, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify i) which gamification design methods have been used in the studies about gamification and Flow Theory, ii) which gamification elements have been used in these studies, iii) which methods have been used to evaluate the users' flow experience in gamified settings, and iv) how gamification affects users' flow experience. The main results show that there is growing interest to this field, as the number of publications is increasing. The most significant interest is in the area of gamification in education. However, there is no unanimity regarding the preferred method of the study or the effects of gamification on users' experience. Our results highlight the importance of conducting new experimental studies investigating how gamification affects the users' flow experience in different gamified settings, applications and domains.Comment: 5th International GamiFIN Conference 2021 (GamiFIN 2021), April 7-10, 2021, Finlan

    Do people's user types change over time? An exploratory study

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    In recent years, different studies have proposed and validated user models (e.g., Bartle, BrainHex, and Hexad) to represent the different user profiles in games and gamified settings. However, the results of applying these user models in practice (e.g., to personalize gamified systems) are still contradictory. One of the hypotheses for these results is that the user types can change over time (i.e., user types are dynamic). To start to understand whether user types can change over time, we conducted an exploratory study analyzing data from 74 participants to identify if their user type (Achiever, Philanthropist, Socialiser, Free Spirit, Player, and Disruptor) had changed over time (six months). The results indicate that there is a change in the dominant user type of the participants, as well as the average scores in the Hexad sub-scales. These results imply that all the scores should be considered when defining the Hexad's user type and that the user types are dynamic. Our results contribute with practical implications, indicating that the personalization currently made (generally static) may be insufficient to improve the users' experience, requiring user types to be analyzed continuously and personalization to be done dynamically.Comment: 5th International GamiFIN Conference 2021 (GamiFIN 2021), April 7-10, 2021, Finlan

    What can educators learn from social game design in university online teaching?

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    In recent years considerable research efforts have been made to provide evidence for a nexus between game design elements in non-game contexts. Our research presents a new approach to bridge game design elements and educational theory: defining a set of motivational "patterns" used for pedagogical purposes in university teaching scenarios. To this end, we will build upon preliminary empirical results from a research project called EMPAMOS®. It derived a set of motivational elements frequently used in social game designs. Our hypothesis is that these elements resemble on a structural level and are directly transferable to motivational factors in online education contexts. Focused on cooperative teaching and learning, we develop a curriculum to enable educators to implement motivational molecules from game design in their learning settings. The paper presents basic premises and a preliminary structure of the curriculum. By examining educational settings in terms of a "broken game", we provide a new perspective on the prerequisites for learning at the university level. (DIPF/Orig.)In den letzten Jahren wurden beträchtliche Forschungsanstrengungen unternommen, um eine Verbindung zwischen Spiel-Design-Elementen in Nicht-Spiel-Kontexten zu belegen. Unsere Forschung stellt einen neuen Ansatz vor, um eine Brücke zwischen Spieldesign-Elementen und Bildungstheorie zu schlagen: die Definition einer Reihe von Motivations-"Mustern", die für pädagogische Zwecke in universitären Lehrszenarien verwendet werden. Zu diesem Zweck bauen wir auf vorläufigen empirischen Ergebnissen eines Forschungsprojekts namens EMPAMOS® auf. Daraus wurde eine Reihe von motivierenden Elementen abgeleitet, die häufig bei der Gestaltung sozialer Spiele verwendet werden. Unsere Hypothese ist, dass diese Elemente auf einer strukturellen Ebene ähneln und sind direkt übertragbar auf motivierende Faktoren in Online-Bildung Kontexten. Mit dem Schwerpunkt auf kooperativem Lehren und Lernen entwickeln wir ein Curriculum, das es Pädagogen ermöglicht, Motivationsmoleküle aus dem Spieldesign in ihre Lernumgebungen zu implementieren. Der Beitrag stellt grundlegende Prämissen und eine vorläufige Struktur des Curriculums vor. Indem wir Bildungssettings im Sinne eines "gebrochenen Spiels" untersuchen, bieten wir eine neue Perspektive auf die Voraussetzungen für das Lernen auf universitärer Ebene. (Autor

    Gamification to Empower Information Security Education

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    47% of the world population uses the internet daily, and access is growing also in less developed countries (LDCs). As a consequence, a total of almost 1 billion households in the world have internet access, of which 48 million belong from LDCs (ITU, 2016). A large proportion of internet users are teenagers, who often are not aware of all the risks related to sharing private information through the Internet using for instance social networks. This paper summarizes how much time students pass online, in what activities they prefer to be involved, which risks they are confronted with, and what can be done to reduce them. The solution we propose isan investment on the teacher level, recognized here as a key figure to be trained to become I (information) Secure Agent via an online course. The course will follow a gamified approach for empowering information security education. Our assumption is that gamification will have positive effects on participants’ engagement and goal achievemen
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