The relationship between fun and the overall score of the MEEGA360 scale

Modeling is an essential and challenging activity in any engineering environment. It implies some hard-to-train skills such as abstraction and communication. Teachers, project leaders, and tool vendors have a hard time teaching or training their students, co-workers, or users. Gamification refers to the exploitation of gaming mechanisms for serious purposes, like promoting behavioral changes, soliciting participation and engagement in activities, etc. We investigate the introduction of gaming mechanisms in modeling tasks with the primary goal of supporting learning/training. The result has been the realization of a gamified modeling environment named PapyGame. In this article, we present the approach adopted for PapyGame implementation, the details on the gamification elements involved, and the derived conceptual architecture required for applying gamification in any modeling environment. Moreover, to demonstrate the benefits of using PapyGame for learning/training modeling, a set of user experience evaluations have been conducted. Correspondingly, we report the obtained results together with a set of future challenges we consider as critical to make gamified modeling a more effective education/training approach.

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Gamifying model-based engineering: the PapyGame experience

Bucchiarone

Savary-Leblanc

Pallec

et al. 2023

Softw Syst Model

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Tackling Gender-Based Violence Through Gamification: a Preliminary Evaluation

Gini,

Roumelioti,

Fiori

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

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How to Foster Sustainable Behaviors through Multi-Campaigns Rewarding Mechanisms: The AIR-BREAK Experience

2023

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The primary objective of the AIR-BREAK mobility campaigns is to disseminate information to the general public and increase their awareness of the sustainable mobility services available. This is intended to promote the adoption of alternative, more environmentally friendly, mobility practices. Due to human heterogeneity, different individuals are motivated by different factors and for this reason the effect of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards vary from subject to subject. Depending on the citizen’s personality and preferences, specific rewarding mechanisms can have different impacts in terms of behavior change. The goal of this article is to report the rewarding mechanisms developed in the context of the project to raise citizens’ awareness, encourage participation, break bad habits and promote behaviour change towards more sustainable lifestyles. It also presents an analysis assessing the impact of the implemented rewarding systems to evaluate their real influence on eco-sustainable behaviors. The results indicate that every campaign successfully achieved its objective of modifying user behavior. Furthermore, the implementation of incentivizing mechanisms proved to be a pivotal factor in attaining this goal, exerting an impact on both the experienced fun and the behavioral outcome.

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The relationship between fun and the overall score of the MEEGA360 scale

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Gamifying model-based engineering: the PapyGame experience

Gamifying model-based engineering: the PapyGame experience

Tackling Gender-Based Violence Through Gamification: a Preliminary Evaluation

How to Foster Sustainable Behaviors through Multi-Campaigns Rewarding Mechanisms: The AIR-BREAK Experience

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