An interesting article Andrzej Marczewki explains the difference between play and game and therefore between playfulness and gamification.
He summarises his reasoning with some bullet points:
– Play is free form and has no extrinsically imposed goals. It is done for fun or joy.
– Games add defined goals and rules to play (such as challenges).
– Toys are objects…
As I reported in a previous post, Ian Bogost is one of the main opponent to the theory of gamification, claiming that this practice is an impoverishment of games, which are actually a powerful tool to influence and to persuade people. In his book Persuasive Games he talks about videogames completely in a new and enlightening way. He describes why…
For my first thesis draft I divided the thesis in 4 chapter and assigned an estimated number of words for each one of those.
1st Chapter – Emergency of climate change
2nd Chapter – Design for sustainability
3rd Chapter – How to influence people? Challenges or games?
4th Chapter – The end justify the means
Introduction
How can we incentivise…
Just when I started to be more convinced about the effectiveness and potentials of gamification, I read the text of John Ferrara Games for Persuasion: Argumentation, Procedurality, and the Lie of Gamification, where he express his opinion against gamification, describing it as a deprivation of games. Although, in the beginning I was a bit adverse to his theory, as simply…
After an introduction to gamification and having read many of the definitions, I started analysing this concept more critically and in depth and to do so I found a series of research papers on the e-library portal of the UAL (I’ve been honestly pleasantly surprise by the amount of papers available there). One of the most influential and interesting researcher…
Undoubtedly, I believe that the process of gamification is a deception, it’s about pushing people to do something without letting them think what they are actually doing. If people will start to have responsible behaviours because of gamification doesn’t mean they became more responsible. But at the same time, people are mislead by years of marketing techniques, dictated by capitalist…
In this post, which I’m planning to update frequently with new quotes, I reported some of the quotes which from some of the main gamification practioners. They could be used to support the back my thesis.
“Games are the only force in the known universe that can get people to take actions against their self-interest, in a predictable way, without…
“A good start is half the work”, finally I can say that I moved a first step for my Final Major Project. After weeks thinking about it, I found a theme which really convinced me to develop my dissertation and related project.
From the beginning I had the idea to work on human psychology in order to influence user behaviours,…
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