(14) What is Gamification? Which books are required reading for gamification, and why? 100 Great Game Based Learning and Gamification Resources » Smart Gamification: Seven Core Concepts for Creating Compelling Experiences |... Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill | Talk Video. You’d Be Surprised By What Really Motivates Users. Editor’s note: This article is adapted from Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products, a new book by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover. Earlier this month, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone unveiled his mysterious startup Jelly. The question-and-answer app was met with a mix of criticism and head scratching. Tech-watchers asked if the world really needed another Q&A service.
Skeptics questioned how it would compete with existing solutions and pointed to the rocky history of previous products like Mahalo Answers, Formspring, and Aardvark. In an interview, Biz articulated his goal to, “make the world a more empathetic place.” We hope a few insights gleaned from user psychology may help the Jelly makers improve their jam and provide some tips for anyone building an online community.
Lesson 1 – The Right Reward In May 2007, entrepreneur and Internet celebrity Jason Calacanis launched a site called Mahalo. At first, Mahalo garnered significant attention and traffic. Lesson 2 – Frequency Matters. Presentations. Introduction Gamification has many ever-changing components to it, from psychology to design and implementation. Here are a few external resources we have vetted and compiled to help supplement your knowledge on the subject. Gamification Studies A collection of scientific papers and studies on gamification and related fields.
A RECIPE for Meaningful Gamification This article introduces six concepts - Reflection, Exposition, Choice, Information, Play, and Engagement - to guide designers of gamification systems that rely on non-reward-based game elements to help people find personal connections and meaning in a real world context. A Review of Gamification for Health-Related Contexts The paper's focus is to introduce theoretical aspects of gamification and its potential impact on health-related contexts, as well as present the state-of-the-art on how gamification is being employed in such contexts. Gamification In Leadership Development: How Companies Use Gaming To Build Their Leader Pipeline. Jeanne Meister - 2020 Workplace: Preparing For The Future. How Deloitte Made Learning a Game - Jeanne C. Meister. By Jeanne C. Meister | 8:00 AM January 2, 2013 “Training is a funny thing,” James Sanders, Manager of Innovation at Deloitte Consulting, told me recently. “No matter how easy you make it to access, or how brilliant the learning programs are, training is simply not the first thing people think of doing when they have some free time.
Let’s face it, for most people, on a typical Sunday morning, if given the choice between ‘Am I gonna watch ESPN, or am I gonna do some training?’ And yet, by using gamification principles, Deloitte has seen use of its Deloitte Leadership Academy (DLA) training program increase. Gamification takes the essence of games — attributes such as fun, play, transparency, design and competition — and applies these to a range of real-world processes inside an organization, including learning & development. Deloitte is well on its way to staying ahead of the trend.
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