"Don't Whip Me With Your Games"

Validation of User Preferences and Effects of Personalized Gamification on Task Performance

“…His work is more focused on the design of educational gamification services. Lessel et al (2016) also present a similar approach that is based on letting users customize their gameful experience by deciding when to use gamification and what elements to use. However, it is more focused on letting users freely choose from a defined (Lessel et al, 2016) or undefined (Lessel et al, 2018) set of gameful design elements, instead of relying on user types to aid in the selection.…”

“…One of the approaches to improve the design of gameful systems is personalized (or adaptive) gamification, meaning the tailoring of the gameful design elements, the interaction mechanics, the tasks, or the game rules according to the preferences or skills of each user (Lessel et al, 2016;Böckle et al, 2017;Tondello et al, 2017b;Klock et al, 2018;Tondello, 2019). Recent advances in the study of personalized gamification include the development of personalized gameful design methods (see section 2.1), the development of user preferences models and taxonomies of game elements (see section 2.2), and the evaluation of the effects of personalized gameful systems (see section 2.3).…”

Programmable Smart Home Toolkits Should Better Address Households’ Social Needs

“…User engagement with smart-home toolkits is another issue, since programming-like activities are far from thrilling to many users [5,22]. Lately, solutions that gamify end-user programming for the smart home have drawn interest [20,22,43]. These are grounded in self-determination theory (SDT), which suggests that humans have three fundamental needs [51]: for autonomy (opportunities to make one's own choices), relatedness (creation of social bonds between oneself and others), and competence (striving to master skills that one fnds important).…”

“…These are grounded in self-determination theory (SDT), which suggests that humans have three fundamental needs [51]: for autonomy (opportunities to make one's own choices), relatedness (creation of social bonds between oneself and others), and competence (striving to master skills that one fnds important). To encourage users further toward behaviours that match their needs, toolkits can employ a bottom-up gamifcation approach [43]. This design tactic turns users into game designers whose creations support the needs of their communities, rather than consumers who are subjected to strive towards goals determined by designers.…”

“…Additionally, we integrated game elements into the toolkit design (counters, rewards, etc.) in the spirit of bottom-up gamifcation [43].…”