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La ludification[1] (terme inspiré de l'anglais gamification) est le transfert des mécanismes du jeu dans d’autres domaines, en particulier des sites web, des situations d'apprentissage, des situations de travail ou des réseaux sociaux. Son objet est d’augmenter l’acceptabilité et l’usage de ces applications en s’appuyant sur la prédisposition humaine au jeu. Cette technique de conception permet d’obtenir des personnes des comportements que l’on pourrait considérer sans intérêt ou que l’on ne voudrait ordinairement pas faire : remplir un questionnaire, acheter un produit, regarder des publicités ou assimiler des informations. The Gamification of Poverty. I’ve been unemployed for just one month, and already I’ve sent my only child to school crying because other kids make fun of him for being on the free lunch program, driven away from a fender bender with a parked car because I didn’t have the money to pay for the accident (luckily no one was around), been fired from my temp job for talking to a union organizer, put my kid’s dog to sleep because we couldn’t afford its medical care, and applied for food stamps—which won’t arrive until next month.
I’m not proud of myself, but this is what it takes to survive as a poor person in America—and now I know, because I played the game Spent, designed by Jenny Nicholson, herself once a child who grew up in poverty. Sponsored by the advertising firm McKinney and Urban Ministries of Durham, which helps people in poverty, Spent is designed to show that when you have no money, you have to make really hard choices. Games, it turns out, aren’t necessarily about entertainment. [via Fast Company]