A Lot of Talk and a Badge: An Empirical Analysis of Personal Achievements in GitHub
Abstract:GITHUB has introduced gamification via personal achievements, whereby badges are unlocked and displayed on developers' personal profile pages in recognition of their development activities. In this paper, we present a mixed-methods empirical investigation to study the diffusion of personal badges in GITHUB in addition to the effects of and the reactions to their introduction. First, we conducted an observational study by mining longitudinal data for over 6,000 developers and performed correlation as well as re… Show more
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