A Systematic Investigation into the Use of Game Elements in the Context of Software Business Landscapes: A Systematic Literature Review

Olgun, Serhan; Yılmaz, Murat; Clarke, Paul M.; O’Connor, Rory V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67383-7_28

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“…An analysis of these studies reveals that a large amount of game elements can prove to be effective and beneficial. The game elements presented below are a subset of the elements commonly seen in many studies on gamification and its effectiveness: they can be grouped under the categories identified by Olgun et al [26] and are generally believed to be the most effective at increasing motivation and interest of users of gamified systems, and were thus the ones considered for this study.…”

Section: Game Elementsmentioning

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“…Referring back to what was discussed in Section 2, Table 1 details all the game elements that are present in the BIPMIN tool, together with the corresponding Core Drive from the Octalysis framework, as well as a brief explanation of the reasoning for choosing the various elements. The choice of game elements came after an analysis of the systematic literature review by Olgun et al [26], which shows that the most common game elements appearing in studies about gamification and Software Engineering are rankings, badges, levels, quests and awards. The three different versions of the BIPMIN tool were developed starting from these elements: rankings were used for the inspiration of the competition version with its leaderboards, the concept of levels was used for the progress version while awards were used as the base for the rewards version.…”

Section: Selected Game Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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BIPMIN: A Gamified Framework for Process Modeling Education

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Business Process Modeling is a skill that is becoming sought after for computer engineers, with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) being one example of the tools used in modeling activities. Students of the Master of Computer Engineering course at Politecnico di Torino learn about BPMN in dedicated courses but often underperform on BPMN-related exercises due to difficulties understanding how to model processes. In recent years, there has been a surge of studies that employ gamification (using game elements in non-recreative contexts to obtain benefits) as a tool in Computer Engineering education to increase students’ engagement with the learning process. This study aims to use the principles of gamification to design a supplementary learning tool for the teaching of information systems technology. In particular, to improve student understanding and use of BPMN diagrams. This study also analyzes the usability and motivation of the participants in using different game elements in increasing student motivation and performance. As part of the study, a prototype web application was developed, which implemented three different designs, each incorporating different game elements relating to either progress, competition, or rewards. An evaluation was then conducted on the prototype to evaluate the performance of the practitioners in performing BPMN modeling tasks with the gamified tool, the usability of the proposed mechanics and the enjoyment of the individual game mechanics that were implemented. With the usage of the gamified tool, the users of the experimental sample were able to complete BPMN modeling tasks with performances compatible with estimates made through expert judgement (i.e., gamification had no negative effect on performance), and were motivated to check the correctness of their models many times during the task execution. The system was evaluated as highly usable (85.8 System Usability Score); the most enjoyed game elements were rewards, levels, progress bars and aesthetics.

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“…Game-based learning are nowadays taken as a hot topic of research with applications in the field of marketing, business, software, medical applications and education to name a few. Many studies [2][3][4] have been conducted to analyze the effects of game design on training, education and learning of the participants. The majority of the studies concluded that game-based learning does bring about a positive effect on the learning of the students [5,6].…”

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Improving software security awareness using a serious game

Yasin

Liu

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Protecting people from cyber threats imposes great challenges, not only technically, but also socially. To achieve the intended level of awareness, software security principles need to be shown with concrete examples during security education. This study aims to design a serious game integrating software security knowledge and concepts into the processes to make it more engaging to learn while playing. In this paper, we have: (i) designed a serious game to compensate the deficiencies in the literature; (ii) performed empirical evaluations including survey, brainstorming and observation to the proposed game. Results: Our study shows that: (i) Cyber Security-Requirements Awareness Game (CSRAG) has a positive effect on players security learning outcomes, level of engagement and participation; (ii) Game-based learning can be an effective way of teaching security related scenarios.

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“…More recently, Olgun et al in [15] conducted a SLR to investigate the application of game elements both, in research and industry software development. Their goals were to identify factors that affect people's motivation, engagement and performance during software development, and the game elements and gamification approaches applied in software business landscapes to increase quality and performance of software development.…”

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Applying gamification elements to build teams for software development

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Nowadays computer games are applied beyond entertainment. Gamification, the application of game elements in non-game environments supports behavioural studies in different disciplines including software engineering, the area in which collaborative work has become a fundamental key. The most used gamification elements in software development environments were analysed from two perspectives: (i) team building or reinforcement activities; and (ii) regarding a set of people's interactive styles. Then, interactive styles with software engineering roles were related in order to be able to identify scenarios that conform a model to build highly effective teams. The three analyses together allow identifying proper gamification elements for modelling scenarios to support the creation of highly effective teams in the software development domain.

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A Systematic Investigation into the Use of Game Elements in the Context of Software Business Landscapes: A Systematic Literature Review

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

BIPMIN: A Gamified Framework for Process Modeling Education

BIPMIN: A Gamified Framework for Process Modeling Education

Improving software security awareness using a serious game

Applying gamification elements to build teams for software development

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