Gamification for Behavior Change: Lessons from Developing a Social, Multiuser, Web-Tablet Based Prevention Game for Youths

Schoech, Dick; Boyas, Javier F.; Black, Beverly M.; Elias-Lambert, Nada

doi:10.1080/15228835.2013.812512

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“…The requirements may not be transferable to all of them e.g. approaches to prevent adolescents from substance abuse and relationship violence [37] or to encourage engagement in online debate systems [38].…”

Section: Gamificationmentioning

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Gamification and Sustainable Consumption: Overcoming the Limitations of Persuasive Technologies

Huber

Hilty

2014

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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The current patterns of production and consumption in the industrialized world are not sustainable. The goods and services we consume cause resource extractions, greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts that are already affecting the conditions of living on Earth. To support the transition toward sustainable consumption patterns, ICT applications that persuade consumers to change their behavior into a "green" direction have been developed in the field of Persuasive Technology (PT). Such persuasive systems, however, have been criticized for two reasons. First, they are often based on the assumption that information (e.g., information on individual energy consumption) causes behavior change, or a change in awareness and attitude that then changes behavior. Second, PT approaches assume that the designer of the system starts from objective criteria for "sustainable" behavior and is able to operationalize them in the context of the application. In this chapter, we are exploring the potential of gamification to overcome the limitations of persuasive systems. Gamification, the process of using game elements in a non-game context, opens up a broader design space for ICT applications created to support sustainable consumption. In particular, a gamification-based approach may give the user more autonomy in selecting goals and relating individual action to social interaction. The idea of gamification may also help designers to view the user's actions in a broader context and to recognize the relevance of different motivational aspects of social interaction, such as competition and cooperation. Based on this discussion we define basic requirements to be used as guidance in gamification-based motivation design for sustainable consumption. Abstract. The current patterns of production and consumption in the industrialized world are not sustainable. The goods and services we consume cause resource extractions, greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts that are already affecting the conditions of living on Earth. To support the transition toward sustainable consumption patterns, ICT applications that persuade consumers to change their behavior into a "green" direction have been developed in the field of Persuasive Technology (PT). Such persuasive systems, however, have been criticized for two reasons. First, they are often based on the assumption that information (e.g., information on individual energy consumption) causes behavior change, or a change in awareness and attitude that then changes behavior. Second, PT approaches assume that the designer of the system starts from objective criteria for "sustainable" behavior and is able to operationalize them in the context of the application. In this chapter, we are exploring the potential of gamification to overcome the limitations of persuasive systems. Gamification, the process of using game elements in a non-game context, opens up a broader design space for ICT applications created to support sustainable consumption. In particular, a gami...

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Section: Gamificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gamification and Sustainable Consumption: Overcoming the Limitations of Persuasive Technologies

Huber

Hilty

2014

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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“…Neither is it restricted to digital approaches such as software for computers and smartphones (Deterding, ). The development of successful and meaningful gamification experiences involves both the application of design principles and psychological, social and behavioural theories, ensuring that the experience provided to users is enjoyable and challenging and not just a simple process of applying points systems, reward graphics, colours and animation (Harwood & Garry, ; Schoech, Boyas, Black, & Elias‐Lambert, ; Seaborn & Fels, ).…”

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Co‐creation of new solutions through gamification: A collaborative innovation practice

Patrício¹,

Moreira

Zurlo

et al. 2020

Creat Innov Manage

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This paper aims to explore the main implications of gamification approaches to collaborative innovation and particularly to co‐creation, i.e. the interaction and interchange of ideas between users, customers, suppliers and other actors in the development of new solutions. Despite the few approaches attempting to make co‐creation more ludic and accessible, researchers have yet to analyse the link between gamification and co‐creation in an extensive manner. In order to better understand this unexplored relationship, empirical case research studies have been conducted with multi‐actors participating in a real‐life co‐creation project through the deployment of a gamified method and tool (ideaChef®), as well as a combination of different instruments, involving speed meetings, workshops, debriefings and interviews. Besides advancing the body of knowledge on collaborative innovation practices and conceptualizing the relationship between gamification and co‐creation, this paper provides important implications for managers on how multiple actors can be engaged and coordinated in such practices through gamification. The paper's main contribution lies in the suggestion that engagement goes hand in hand with coordination, and that a combination of both will be the best strategy for co‐creating new solutions through gamification.

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“…(Mayne et al 2013)). Once health-related behaviors are known, the possibility of using gamification (Whitson 2013) and other approaches to encourage salubrious behaviors become possible (Schoech et al 2013). …”

Section: Behavomementioning

confidence: 99%

Genetic GIScience: Toward a Place-Based Synthesis of the Genome, Exposome, and Behavome

Jacquez¹,

Sabel²,

Chen³

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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The exposome, defined as the totality of an individual’s exposures over the life course, is a seminal concept in the environmental health sciences. Although inherently geographic, the exposome as yet is unfamiliar to many geographers. This article proposes a place-based synthesis, genetic geographic information science (Genetic GISc) that is founded on the exposome, genome+ and behavome. It provides an improved understanding of human health in relation to biology (the genome+), environmental exposures (the exposome), and their social, societal and behavioral determinants (the behavome). Genetic GISc poses three key needs: First, a mathematical foundation for emergent theory; Second, process-based models that bridge biological and geographic scales; Third, biologically plausible estimates of space-time disease lags. Compartmental models are a possible solution; this article develops two models using pancreatic cancer as an exemplar. The first models carcinogenesis based on the cascade of mutations and cellular changes that lead to metastatic cancer. The second models cancer stages by diagnostic criteria. These provide empirical estimates of the distribution of latencies in cellular states and disease stages, and maps of the burden of yet to be diagnosed disease. This approach links our emerging knowledge of genomics to cancer progression at the cellular level, to individuals and their cancer stage at diagnosis, to geographic distributions of cancer in extant populations. These methodological developments and exemplar provide the basis for a new synthesis in health geography: genetic geographic information science.

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Gamification for Behavior Change: Lessons from Developing a Social, Multiuser, Web-Tablet Based Prevention Game for Youths

Cited by 88 publications

References 33 publications

Gamification and Sustainable Consumption: Overcoming the Limitations of Persuasive Technologies

Gamification and Sustainable Consumption: Overcoming the Limitations of Persuasive Technologies

Co‐creation of new solutions through gamification: A collaborative innovation practice

Genetic GIScience: Toward a Place-Based Synthesis of the Genome, Exposome, and Behavome

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