Gamification of Sustainable Consumption: a systematic literature review

Abstract

As awareness about the need to shift current individual consumption practices towards more sustainable ones grows, broader sets of methods are being sought to encourage sustainable lifestyles, gamification being one of the most notorious due to its application via apps and other technology-related solutions. Building upon an intention-impact approach, this review used practice-theory to analyze academic literature addressing gamification approaches to shift individual consumption practices into more sustainable ones

Live and Let Die - Battle Stories of Gamified Sustainable Consumption App Creators

“…The interviewees were selected from the apps in the database created for a systematic review of gamified consumption apps in 2021 (Guillen M. et al, 2022). These apps were clustered in four groups, facilitating the selection of 52 apps, as shown in Table 1.…”

“…Gamified apps feature a series of elements and mechanics that induce gameful experiences within the system (Koivisto & Hamari, 2019). What previous research on gamification and sustainable consumption showed (Guillen Mandujano et al, 2021), is a prevalence of nine gamification elements applied across approaches designed to address sustainable consumption. These are goals and missions, points, leaderboards and rankings, badges, social media features like sharing and tagging, rewards, progress bars and levels, reputation systems, and avatars.…”

“…Thus, gamified SCAs represent a unique type of mobile application, as they invite users to act today to create long-term impacts for themselves and others. While SCAs seemingly follow the same patterns as other apps regarding their creation and market presence, they tend to disappear after less than two years (Guillen M. et al, 2022). These apps frequently feature gamification strategies that are meaningless for the users, like collecting points that generate nothing (Guillen M. et al, 2022), exemplifying how the application of gamification may lead to the apps' eventual failure and the importance of strategically planning its implementation.…”

Designer? User? Player! – A Framework of Opportunities to Improve Interpersonal Dynamics During Usability Testing Through Gamification

“…Another research focuses on improving the collaboration between team members to deliver optimal outcomes in teamwork [16]. They present a framework to assist in Based on existing research on game element categories and game types [17]- [19] and research on most used game elements in gamification [20], we selected some game types and game elements that have the potential to improve the interpersonal dynamic in usability testing. Table 1 shows a preliminary analysis of how they might apply in usability testing scenarios.…”

Gamification and proenvironmental performance: could tourists return home with more sustainable habits?

“…In the frame of The European project UrbanWaste (2016-2019) [1], IDeTIC developed a gamified mobile application (WasteApp) to stimulate RB in visitors to tourist cities with high seasonality, concluding that it managed to encourage RB and improve the reputation of the destination when implemented (Guillen et al , 2021; Aguiar-Castillo et al , 2019).…”