Gamification mechanics for behavioral change

Hervás, Ramón; Ruiz-Carrasco, David; Mondéjar, Tania; Bravo, José

doi:10.1145/3154862.3154939

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“…Our results support the initial hypothesis that the mHealth intervention (TeenPower) is more effective than the standard school-based intervention in the promotion of healthy behaviours. The improvement of health behaviours by mHealth interventions had already been verified in previous studies (Guarneri & Perego, 2017;Hervas, Ruiz-Carrasco, Bravo, & Mondejar, 2017). Our results show a significant time-group interaction in the health responsibility dimension, with a positive change in the experimental group.…”

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confidence: 87%

Controlled trial of an mHealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in adolescence (TeenPower): Effectiveness analysis

Sousa

Martinho

Reis

et al. 2020

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim To evaluate the effectiveness on lifestyle change of an mHealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in adolescence (TeenPower) and to analyse the predictors of the mHealth intervention effectiveness. Design This study is designed as a non‐randomized controlled trial with a two‐arm structure. Methods Adolescents of 12–16‐year old were recruited from three school districts, with access to the Internet and smartphone/tablet devices. The intervention group was invited to engage in the mHealth intervention (TeenPower) for 6 months in addition to a school‐based intervention. The control group only followed the school‐based intervention. A repeated measures factorial ANOVA was used and the main effectiveness outcome was the lifestyle change measured by the adolescent lifestyle profile. Results The outcomes of the mHealth intervention (TeenPower) show a significant effect on nutrition (ƞ2p = 0.03, p = .03), positive life perspective (ƞ2p = 0.04, p = .01), and global lifestyle (ƞ2p = 0.02, p = .05), with a dropout rate of 62.1%. The analysis of the effectiveness predictors of the mHealth intervention suggested that older adolescents tended to show a significant increase in the rates of stress management (r = .40; p < .05). Conclusions Although the considerable dropout rate, the mHealth intervention presented significant impact on multiple lifestyle domains, providing support for the effectiveness of mHealth interventions for health promotion as an add‐on to standard interdisciplinary interventions. Impact Adolescents must have the necessary and appropriate knowledge for the correct and responsible decision‐making regarding their health and lifestyle. Innovative strategies (mHealth intervention) were used to promote healthy behaviours. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an mHealth intervention (TeenPower) specifically designed for adolescents. We found a significant impact in several lifestyle domains such as health responsibility, nutrition, positive life perspective, and global lifestyle.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Controlled trial of an mHealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in adolescence (TeenPower): Effectiveness analysis

Sousa

Martinho

Reis

et al. 2020

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…While some literature, such as Dichev and Dicheva [7] treat all cognitive, affective and behavioral elements as an outcome of gamification, Hervas et al [30] instead state that there is still a need to know which mechanics trigger which psychological concepts that subsequently impact behavioral changes. The scarcity of this knowledge consequently leaves gamification research putting more emphasis on the mechanics and outputs than to understand for how these mechanics are influencing outcomes, such as learning, economic or other, with individuals' cognition and emotion.…”

Section: Mechanics Psychological Mediators and Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These motivators are also discussed as impacting other psychosomatic elements, such as the cognitive need, self-efficacy and others [57]. In literature, it is difficult to demonstrate exactly the linkages and the causative pathways between mechanics, mediators and outcomes [30,31]. To illustrate this, a mechanic, designed as a badge or a reward, has been shown to impact intrinsic motivation to perform certain tasks [60].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A considerable volume of literature suggests that mechanics have an impact on various psychological outcomes [7,30], defined as psychological mediators in this conceptual paper. While there is a range of different psychological effects being polysemantic and synonymous with each other, there are also some common denominators, such as affect, autonomy/ the sense of control, social, engagement/cognitive stimulation, incentive reinforcement/ motivation, other cognitive factors, knowledge, purpose, meaning and fulfillment (figure 2).…”

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An interdisciplinary perspective on gamification: Mechanics, psychological mediators and outcomes

Helmefalk

2019

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As gamification literature has matured, the gap between how different domains apply the theory has widened. This has positioned gamification as being more dependent on context, rather than being an independent theory per se. To address this notion, three concepts are identified as being central for how a gamificator, the one responsible for gamifying, gamifies a process. These are mechanics, mental mediators and desired outcomes. Following this logic, a review was conducted using 77 (n) articles across seven disciplines, namely health and wellness, crowdsourcing, sustainability, computer science, software development, business, and tourism. The findings highlighted potentially causal and correlational relationships between several concepts when gamifying a situation, context, service or/and process. This research presents an alternative and uniform perspective on the broad gamification research to better understand how gamification functions and can be employed to impact various outcomes. Furthermore, this research contributes to this rather eclectic domain, presenting a more categorized view in showing domain-specific mechanics and how these can be employed for empirical testing. Lastly, the conceptual model can be modified, employed and adjusted to investigate various effects of gamification on outcomes.

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“…All these elements are prominent in games, making them a viable medium to persuade users to change their behaviour. Hervas and colleagues [11] have conducted a critical survey of gamification mechanics to effect behavioural change. These form the bases for the development of a prototype persuasive game for our research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of Online Transportation Mode Recognition in Games

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It is widely accepted that human activities largely contribute to global emissions and thus, greatly impact climate change. Awareness promotion and adoption of green transportation mode could make a difference in the long term. To achieve behavioural change, we investigate the use of a persuasive game utilising online transportation mode recognition to afford bonuses and penalties to users based on their daily choices of transportation mode. To facilitate an easy identification of transportation mode, classification predictive models are built based on accelerometer and gyroscope historical data. Preliminary results show that the classification true-positive rate for recognising 10 different transportation classes can reach up to 95% when using a historical set (66% without). Results also reveal that the random tree classification model is a viable choice compared to random forest in terms of sustainability. Qualitative studies of the trained classifiers and measurements of Android-device gravity also raise several issues that could be addressed in future work. This research work could be enhanced through acceleration normalisation to improve device and user ambiguity.

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Gamification mechanics for behavioral change

Cited by 33 publications

References 19 publications

Controlled trial of an mHealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in adolescence (TeenPower): Effectiveness analysis

Controlled trial of an mHealth intervention to promote healthy behaviours in adolescence (TeenPower): Effectiveness analysis

An interdisciplinary perspective on gamification: Mechanics, psychological mediators and outcomes

Application of Online Transportation Mode Recognition in Games

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