Making serious applications more engaging by increasing feedback to stimulate action, through the application of principles of Cognitive Psychology and Behaviorism.
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Will animated feedback be annoying or nice?
I'm developing a website called Fablelane which allows you to write your own stories and have others contribute outcomes or "chunks" to that story.
Right now (if you go to the website), there's an ...
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Incentives for support agent to provide feedback
I am exploring ways support agents could be encouraged to provide feedback to the system about whether a suggested solution (e.g. user has to delete cookies from browser) solved the problem or not. ...
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Reputation Scoring Signals
My Question:
How is the UX of the best, or any, web reputation systems capturing and
representing offline influence within a community?
What are the signals that are quantified or illuminated in ...
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How to make enterprise information systems more engaging?
“The EPR-system is boring, nothing really happens, and it’s all dull.” I get these kind of claims from my clients, and they expect me to make their software more fun and engaging.
The problem is, I ...
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What is the best way to motivate users to participate in completing tedious tasks?
I am working for a company that is looking to crowdsource some tasks in a fun, engaging way. The problem is that the task is very tedious. How do we keep our users engaged long enough to complete the ...
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How can I use gamification to encourage people to complete mundane but required tasks?
I am looking for ways to improve the likelihood people will perform mundane but required tasks. I am looking into gamification techniques.
One of the tasks for my organisation is to complete required ...
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Is having a “points based app” related to higher user experience and site visits?
As per my observation the web apps that somehow relates its user to play with numbers and statistics have higher level of getting success rate then the ones that don't (not necessarily).
Use case: ...
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How can I implement a scarcity pattern in the gamification of a forum
StackExchange uses a scarcity design pattern when new users are restricted in how many comments, up votes, and down votes they can post contingent on their score/rank.
My client wants to implement ...
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Implement gamification on Time reporting to minimize late reports?
A company is having trouble getting its employees to report time of their working hours. The time reporting is the source for invoicing the company's customers and it has to be done in time. To deal ...
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When is something too easy?
Let us assume that satisfaction can be derived from challenges, such as in games. Let us also also assume that the appeal of many websites or real-life experiences comes from incorporating gaming ...
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How important are views and votes counters on StackExchange lists of questions?
If StackExchange were to remove the views and votes counters from their lists of questions (homepage, active, newest, etc) as a trade-off for a cleaner design would this bother you?
Those items would ...
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Could gamification of training database work in a manufacturing environment?
I made a WPF app which contains and shows lots of training resources. The thing is, people aren't very motivated to just open something and start reading/learning.
Does anyone have experience with ...
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Points in game dynamics / gamification
I'm working on an e-learning application that uses game dynamics, which include points (like Stack Exchange). There are two aspects to the application that we want to encourage. Actions that benefit ...
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What makes people vote?
What drives people to upvote or downvote content? I'm looking for the je-ne-sais-quoi quality on successful voting systems and I just can't put my finger on. Let's look at three examples:
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Is Serious Games the same concept as Gamification?
When looking at this question, I was asking myself: Where are conceptual differences? Except that Gamification is a Game added to a serious topic, while a serious game approaches it from the opposite ...
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How do you choose which game mechanics to apply to a non-game system?
Is there anyone doing gamification? (apply game mechanics to non-game system)
Just wanted to ask: how do you choose which one to use when gamifying a system? Because there are multitudes of ...
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Should we call our achievement system something else?
The company I work for has two public sites; one is just our main WWW site and the other is a site dedicated to our members. I'm a developer there and I'm working on an achievement system for our ...
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UX and design for Gamification of Collaborative Learning
What are proven gamification techniques that promote collaboration? I don't mind whether the specific techniques come from educational sites, or pure game sites or some other source. I want to ...
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Best practices for applying user achievements to business applications
I've read over a few papers projects and related to the use of video game style achievements being put into regular applications as a means to encourage users to explore the tools and create a desire ...
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How does Gamification change User Behavior?
On Location Based Applications the use of Gamification is essential. As you move along and check in you earn badges and points. Users also find themselves in a leader board, which most certainly ...
