<i>Adventures with Lex</i>: The gamification of research?

Barwick, Joanna; Watkins, Dawn; Kirk, Elee; Law, Effie Lai‐Chong

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“…All 91 articles retrieved from the databases were arranged by subject areas (see Chart 2). Since 2012, 36% of the published articles were theoretical, trying to understand and explain this new phenomenon, as well as reviewing other articles Huizenga et al (2017), Karagiorgas and Niemann (2017), Kim and Lee (2015), Monterrat, Lavoué, & George, 2017, Barwick, Watkins, Kirk, & Law, (2016), Landers (2014, Landers and Armstrong (2017), Aslan & Balci, (2015), Doherty et al (2017), etc. Science Tinati, Luczak-Roesch, Simperl, and Hall (2017), Tsai (2018) Medicine and health care Giuntia et al (2018), Miller et al (2016, Willoughby and Smith (2016), Orwoll and Diane (2017), etc.…”

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“…Only one article was published in 2016, and it was about the use of a specially designed game as a data-collecting tool, where the game, developed using participatory design techniques, was used as a means to investigate children's perceptions in their everyday lives. The participant children played this particular game in the classroom for 1 year (Barwick, Watkins, Kirk, & Law, 2016). It must be noted that the purpose of this research was not connected with learning outcomes; however, it is an example of how students can be engaged and motivated to participate in the classroom (or, as in this case, in particular activity) by game design elements without knowing the real goal set by the researchers.…”

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Gamification for Education: Review of Current Publications

Dreimane

2018

Didactics of Smart Pedagogy

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Educational practitioners are always looking for new and better ways to scaffold student learning; the latest approach that has become popular is called gamification.The aim of this research is to explore the concept of gamification and to review current research and publications about gamification for education. To do so, the systematic analysis of publications was chosen as research method. During the research, 91 articles published since 2012, obtained via the "Scopus" and "SAGE Publications" databases, were reviewed. Articles were classified by publication year, research areas, longitude, research methodology and used keywords in the articles.The study shows that there is little research that gives comprehensive insight into the concept of gamification for education, because the concept of gamification is relatively new. But gamification has a positive impact on student motivation and attitude changes.

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Gamification for Education: Review of Current Publications

Dreimane

2018

Didactics of Smart Pedagogy

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“…Researchers have less of a tradition regarding these practices, but are increasingly engaging in research through design, speculative methods and gamified research (e.g. Auger, 2013Auger, , 2014Barwick et al, 2018;Coulton et al, 2016;Harman et al, 2014;Schliwa, 2019) to make the smart city researchable. This paper aims to identify the epistemological and methodological challenges and consequences of working with a gamified survey, as well as reflect on its politics and pitfalls.…”

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“…‘Research through gaming’, is, according to Adamou (2011) a situation in which organizations and researchers develop games to gain data from the actions respondents take whilst engaging in that game. However, according to Barwick et al (2018, p. 232), ‘there has been little interest from the academic community in the potential opportunities that gamification presents in the research context’. The few academic reflections on gamified research concern basically two issues: gamification as a means to engage respondents in new and appealing ways, and the challenge to the validity and reliability of the data that gamified research produces.…”

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Doing Research With a Gamified Survey: Reflections From Smart City Research

Rijshouwer

Zoonen

2022

Social Science Computer Review

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Corporate and government officials as well as social scientists studying smart cities are exploring gamification to help stakeholders engage with complex technological and societal issues. However, despite research addressing concerns of respondents’ engagement and the validity and reliability of the results of gamified research, there are hardly any empirical accounts of how respondent engagement, validity and reliability of results are affected by decision-making in multi-stakeholder processes of designing and producing gamified research. In this paper, we evaluate a gamified survey that we developed to do research about public perceptions and engagements with digitization and datafication in public space. We report and evaluate the ideas, discussions and decisions in the design and production of the gamified survey. These reflections offer insights into the politics of such a process and advice for other researchers considering the use of gamified research tools for examining seemingly invisible and intangible technological developments, whilst at the same time being critical of the validity and reliability of the outcomes that such a survey produced. Our analysis shows how and why pragmatism and stakeholder relations took precedence over academic and epistemological concerns. Whilst we produced a research tool that did provoke large numbers of different people to actually engage with the smart city, the resulting data were less rich than we had aimed for, and required additional, qualitative methods.

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“…The main goal of gamification is to increase the fun factor of the activities and make them less dull in the eyes of the participants. The applications of gamification have spread widely into numerous fields in the society, such as primary education [2], higher education [3], tourism [3][4], marketing [5] [6], recruitment [6] [7], and even research [8] and software engineering [9]. Due to its cutting-edge nature, it is no wonder that the applications of gamification have been mostly found in developed countries.…”

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Gamification of Assessment Test through Multiple Question Paths to Facilitate Participants’ Autonomy and Competence

Atmaja

Mandyartha

2020

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Gamifying activities to make them more game-like is one of the hottest trends in various fields, including education. Among the factors influencing the success of gamification for education are the participants' sense of autonomy and competence, which can be facilitated with the incorporation of multiple learning paths. However, the use of multiple question paths in gamified assessment tests is still under-studied. This mixed-method study was aimed at exploring the matter through a paper-based and gamified assessment test in higher education. A controlled experiment was conducted in a calculus course in an informatics department. The experimental group (n = 38) undertook a gamified written test, and the control group (n = 37) undertook a regular one. The gamified test consisted of several Hard and Medium Questions, and each participant would choose a question path containing some of the questions. Nine question paths were available with varying ratios between Hard and Medium Questions, and the participants were allowed to ask for two hints on the Hard ones. A questionnaire, based on the EGameFlow model, was used to assess the gamified test. The results show that the gamified test was able to facilitate the participants' sense of autonomy but not their sense of competence, which was due to flaws of the test. Two additional positive effects of the test on the participants' knowledge improvement and Flow experience are identified. The path selection pattern among the participants and the flaws of the gamified test are also discussed.

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Adventures with Lex: The gamification of research?

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Gamification for Education: Review of Current Publications

Gamification for Education: Review of Current Publications

Doing Research With a Gamified Survey: Reflections From Smart City Research

Gamification of Assessment Test through Multiple Question Paths to Facilitate Participants’ Autonomy and Competence

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