Gamification: a systematic review of design frameworks

Mora, Alberto; Riera, Daniel; González, Carina Soledad González; Arnedo-Moreno, Joan

doi:10.1007/s12528-017-9150-4

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“…It is also noteworthy that despite the existing literature on user preferences in gamification and games, most gameful design methods do not take user preference in consideration as part of their process [24,25]. One explanation for the lack of consideration for user preferences in design methods might be the difficulty of translating the existing models directly into design guidance.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences

Tondello

Mora

Nacke

2017

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Several studies have developed models to explain player preferences. These models have been developed for digital games; however, they have been frequently applied in gameful design (i.e., designing non-game applications with game elements) without empirical validation of their fit to this different context. It is not clear if users experience game elements embedded in applications similarly to how players experience them in games. Consequently, we still lack a conceptual framework of design elements built specifically for a gamification context. To fill this gap, we propose a classification of eight groups of gameful design elements produced from an exploratory factor analysis based on participants' self-reported preferences. We describe the characteristics of the users who are more likely to enjoy each group of design elements in terms of their gender, age, gamification user type, and personality t raits. Our main contribution is providing an overview of which design elements work best for what demographic clusters and how we can apply this knowledge to design effective gameful systems.

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Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences

Tondello

Mora

Nacke

2017

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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“…Readers can review state-of-the-art papers for a presentation of existing gamification design processes [3,22,15]. Global design processes generally offer high-level guidelines to consider the context and suggest the following steps: define the main objective, understand the user motivation, identify the game mechanics and analyse the effect of gamification [24,9].…”

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A Design Space For Meaningful Structural Gamification

Hallifax

Serna

Marty

et al. 2018

Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Gamification design is a complex process. Existing gameful design methods generally focus on high level motivational considerations. In order to provide designers with the tools to create meaningful and motivating game elements, we propose a design space that encapsulates lower-level design decisions, such as visual and operational aspects, during the design process. We also propose a set of design cards and a board that aim to support the design process for collaborative design sessions.

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“…Designers have used this kind of game design models before [33] to gamify activities, but it is clear that the process of gameful design is somewhat different from game design. Games are mostly directed towards pure entertainment, whereas gamification attempts to enhance engagement and user experience in different contexts [88].…”

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“…In generic gamification models the goal is usually to increase a certain task efficiency or improve user retention [33]; and while these may look appropriate on a surface level, there are hidden dangers inherent to healthcare. Generic gamification models often do not contemplate these kind of negative consequences.…”

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3MD for Chronic Conditions, a Model for Motivational mHealth Design: Embedded Case Study (Preprint)

Giunti¹

2018

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Chronic conditions are the leading cause of death in the world. Major improvements in acute care and diagnostics have created a tendency towards the chronification of formerly terminal conditions, requiring people with these conditions to learn how to self-manage. Mobile technologies hold promise as self-management tools due to their ubiquity and costeffectiveness.The delivery of health-related services through the use of mobile technologies (mHealth) has grown exponentially in recent years. However, only a fraction of these solutions takes into consideration the views of relevant stakeholders like healthcare professionals or even patients. The use of behavioral change models (BCM) has proven important in developing successful health solutions, yet engaging patients remains a challenge. There is a trend in mHealth solutions called gamification that attempts to use game elements to drive user behavior and increase engagement. As it stands, designers of mHealth solutions for behavioral change in chronic conditions have no clear way of deciding what factors are relevant to consider.The focus of this work is to discover factors for the design of mHealth solutions for chronic patients; to do so, negotiations between medical knowledge, BCM, and gamification were explored through an embedded case study research methodology. The data obtained was thematically analyzed to create the Model for Motivational Mobile-health Design for chronic conditions (3MD).The 3MD model guides the design of condition-oriented gamified behavioral change mHealth solutions. The main components are: 1) Condition-specific, which describe factors that need to be adjusted and adapted for each particular chronic condition; 2) Motivation-related; which are factors that address how to influence behaviors in an engaging manner; and 3) Technologybased, which are factors that are directly connected to the technical capabilities of mobile technologies. 3MD also provides a series of high level illustrative design questions for designers to use and consider during the design process.The present work addresses a recognized gap in research and practice, and proposes a unique model that could be of use in the generation of new solutions to help chronic patients.

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Gamification: a systematic review of design frameworks

Cited by 236 publications

References 37 publications

Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences

Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences

A Design Space For Meaningful Structural Gamification

3MD for Chronic Conditions, a Model for Motivational mHealth Design: Embedded Case Study (Preprint)

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