The Magic Potion of Game Dynamics. Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium's Principal Scientist of Analytics, digging into the complex dynamics of social interaction and group behavior in online communities and social networks.
Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM.He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere's Building Community blog and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. You can follow him on Twitter at mich8elwu. When I kicked off this short-series on gaming last week I explained the various game related terminologies. Hopefully we are all on the same page now with the basics. Fogg-BehaviorModel-Design. FramewkMeaningfulGamification. FutureWkIsPlay. Smart Gamification: 7Concepts4Exp. Google I/O 2012 - Ignite. GamingGetsSerious. GameDesignElement to Gamefulness.
Whyweplaygames. GameDesign&Research. Meaningful Play - coding conduct. Meaningful Play Meaningful Play.
Getting »Gamification« Right. Presentation, Google Tech Talk, January 24, 2011, Mountain View, CA. Between promises of plain mind control and warnings of »pointsification«, the debate on »gamification« is deeply split.