Game elements improve performance in a working memory training task

Ninaus, Manuel; Pereira, Gonçalo; Stefitz, René; Prada, Rui; Paiva, Ana; Neuper, Christa; Wood, Guilherme

doi:10.17083/ijsg.v2i1.60

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“…In the case of SSRTs however, we found evidence of equality between the Points variant and the Non-Game variant. Though the Points variant had longer non-stop reaction times, it is possible that the highly salient feedback and motivational effect of points served to increase participant performance, as has been found in a number of previous studies (Attali & Arieli-Attali, 2015;Leotti & Wager, 2010;Ninaus et al, 2015).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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No effect of gamification on attrition from a longitudinal cognitive testing study

Lumsden¹,

Skinner²,

Coyle³

et al. 2017

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The prospect of assessing cognition longitudinally is attractive to researchers, health practitioners and pharmaceutical companies alike. However, such repeated-testing regimes place a considerable burden on participants, and with cognitive tasks typically being regarded as effortful and unengaging, these studies may experience high levels of participant attrition. One potential solution is to gamify these tasks to make them more engaging: increasing participant willingness to take part and reducing attrition. However, such an approach must balance task validity with introducing entertaining gamelike elements.We investigated the effects of gamelike features on participant attrition using a betweensubjects, longitudinal online testing study. We used three variants of a common cognitive task, the stop signal task, with a single gamelike feature in each: one variant where points were rewarded for performing optimally, another where the task was given a graphical theme, and a third variant which was a standard stop signal task and served as a control condition. Participants completed four compulsory test sessions over four consecutive days before entering a six-day voluntary testing period where they faced a daily decision to either drop out or continue taking part. Participants were paid for each session they completed.We saw no evidence for an effect of gamification on attrition, with participants dropping out of each variant at equal rates. Our findings raise doubts about the ability of gamification to increase engagement with cognitive testing studies.

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No effect of gamification on attrition from a longitudinal cognitive testing study

Lumsden¹,

Skinner²,

Coyle³

et al. 2017

Preprint

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“…Gamification has been suggested to influence both working memory [50] and episodic memory [32]. Episodic memories are typically associated with strong associations with a particular time or place, so the potential for creating such memories through immersive games is high.…”

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confidence: 99%

Beyond Enjoyment: A Cognitive-Emotional Perspective of Gamification

Mullins

Sabherwal

2018

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Even though the use of game elements in gammoned professional settings is very extensive, there are not many studies about their relationship with performance evolution, say M. Ninaus et al 15 . According to researchers at the Instituto Superior Técnico, elements such as progress bars and positioning indicators at different levels could be useful for monitoring the evolution of employee's performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gamification in project management

Marcão¹,

Pestana²,

Sousa³

2017

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Economic and Business Management (FEBM 2017)

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The area of monitoring and project management presents a collection of methodologies. Some are more sequential and others more iterative, each one with benefits in different aspects. In this way, it is intended to gather a set of good practices of project management, identifying the most beneficial characteristics of different methodologies. Since one of the dimensions of project management is the management of human resources, it is urgent to value the motivation of employees. Since in many of the developed studies, the performance of the employee appears as a variable dependent on motivation, it becomes urgent to identify concepts that allow addressing it, such as the concept of gamification. By monitoring the evolution of the performance of each employee, we were able to evaluate the success of the model. Although there are several methodologies in the market, none of them results from a symbiosis between traditional and iterative methodologies, and there is no reference to any model that can dynamically address the employee's motivation. This document focuses on the literature review of the theme of monitoring and project management, whereas the focus is on the concept of gamification as the engine of motivation and the monitoring of the performance of employees, as members of a project team.

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Game elements improve performance in a working memory training task

Cited by 80 publications

References 28 publications

No effect of gamification on attrition from a longitudinal cognitive testing study

No effect of gamification on attrition from a longitudinal cognitive testing study

Beyond Enjoyment: A Cognitive-Emotional Perspective of Gamification

Gamification in project management

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