Removing gamification from an enterprise SNS

Thom, Jennifer S.; Millen, David R.; DiMicco, Joan Morris

doi:10.1145/2145204.2145362

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“…In EyeWire, the team made frequent note of the various requests made by players and the negative reaction many players had to changing features -regardless of the intention behind the change or the scientific needs which motivated such changes. Similarly, it would suggest that removing game elements that have been used by an established community such as in EyeWire would have a detrimental effect, comparable to those impacts reported in enterprise social networks [Thom et al 2012]. This trade-off in balancing the needs of game players with the needs of project scientists is an interesting area for further research that was not significantly explored in the literature surveyed.…”

Section: Analysis Of Gamification Effectsmentioning

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Is Virtual Citizen Science A Game?

Simperl

Reeves

Phethean

et al. 2018

Trans. Soc. Comput.

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The use of game elements within virtual citizen science is increasingly common, promising to bring increased user activity, motivation and engagement to large-scale scientific projects. However there is an ongoing debate about whether or not gamifying systems such as these is actually an effective means by which to increase motivation and engagement in the long term. While gamification itself is receiving a large amount of attention, there has been little beyond individual studies to assess its suitability or success for citizen science; similarly, while frameworks exist for assessing citizen science performance, they tend to lack any appreciation of the effects that game elements might have had. We therefore review the literature to determine what the trends are regarding the performance of particular game elements or characteristics in citizen science, and survey existing projects to assess how popular different game features are. Investigating this phenomenon further, we then present the results of a series of interviews carried out with the EyeWire citizen science project team to understand more about how gamification elements are introduced, monitored and assessed in a live project. Our findings suggest that projects use a range of game elements with points and leaderboards the most popular, particularly in projects that describe themselves as 'games'. Currently, gamification appears to be effective in citizen science for maintaining engagement with existing communities, but shows limited impact for attracting new players.

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Section: Analysis Of Gamification Effectsmentioning

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Is Virtual Citizen Science A Game?

Simperl

Reeves

Phethean

et al. 2018

Trans. Soc. Comput.

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“…Even in professional contexts, the use of scoring systems has been demonstrated to increase use of an internal social networking site [34]. When combined with social networks that make these achievements visible, these features introduce an element of competition between, and playful awareness of others.…”

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BinCam: Designing for Engagement with Facebook for Behavior Change

Comber

Thieme

Rafiev

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper we continue work to investigate how we can engage young adults in behaviors of recycling and the prevention of food waste through social media and persuasive and ubiquitous computing systems. Our previous work with BinCam, a two-part design combining a system for the collection of waste-related behaviors with a Facebook application, suggested that although this ubiquitous system could raise awareness of recycling behavior, engagement with social media remained low. In this paper we reconsider our design in terms of engagement, examining both the theoretical and practical ways in which engagement can be designed for. This paper presents findings from a new user study exploring the re-design of the social media interface following this analysis. By incorporating elements of gamification, social support and improved data visualization, we contribute insights on the relative potential of these techniques to engage individuals across the lifespan of a system's deployment.

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“…As some evidence suggests that the experiential aspect of use may overlap with its productive aspect (Agarwal and Karahanna 2000), this term will be defined here as denoting a dimension rather than a discrete form of use. Indeed, as indicated by current interest in "gamification" (Deterding et al 2011, Thom et al 2012, this experiential dimension of use is increasingly being integrated into conventional and business-oriented systems to improve user engagement. Recent studies suggest, though, that applications where the experiential dimension of use predominates impose new demands on the creativity and collaborative practices of software development teams.…”

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From Knowing It to “Getting It”: Envisioning Practices in Computer Games Development

Nandhakumar

Panourgias

Scarbrough

2013

Information Systems Research

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This is the published version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link Full terms and conditions of use: http://pubsonline.informs.org/page/terms-and-conditionsThis article may be used only for the purposes of research, teaching, and/or private study. Commercial use or systematic downloading (by robots or other automatic processes) is prohibited without explicit Publisher approval, unless otherwise noted. For more information, contact permissions@informs.org.The Publisher does not warrant or guarantee the article's accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Descriptions of, or references to, products or publications, or inclusion of an advertisement in this article, neither constitutes nor implies a guarantee, endorsement, or support of claims made of that product, publication, or service. Copyright © 2013, INFORMS Please scroll down for article-it is on subsequent pagesINFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the fields of operations research, management science, and analytics. For more information on INFORMS, its publications, membership, or meetings visit http://www.informs.org T he development of information systems and software applications increasingly needs to deliver culturally rich and affective experiences for user groups. In this paper, we explore how the collaborative practices across different expert groups can enable this experiential dimension of use to be integrated into the development of a software product. In an empirical study of computer games development-an arena in which the novelty and richness of the user experience is central to competitive success-we identify the challenges of conceptualizing and realizing a desired user experience when it cannot be readily specified in an initial design template, nor represented within the expertise of existing groups. Our study develops a theoretical framework to address these challenges. Through this framework, we are able to show how achieving a desired user experience requires developer groups to not only work across the boundaries that arise from specialized expertise, but also across wider fields centred on cultural production and software development, respectively. We find that their ability to do this is supported by distinctive "envisioning practices" that sustain an emerging shared "vision" for each game. The key research contributions that we then make are (a) grounding envisioning practices as a means of theorizing the collaborative practices centred on conceptualizing the user experience; (b) identifying how these practices are interwoven with the "producing practices" of software development, thus enabling collaboration to span expert groups and disparate fields; and (c) theorizing the role of vision as an emerging conceptual boundary object in these practices. Information Systems Research

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Removing gamification from an enterprise SNS

Cited by 217 publications

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Is Virtual Citizen Science A Game?

Is Virtual Citizen Science A Game?

BinCam: Designing for Engagement with Facebook for Behavior Change

From Knowing It to “Getting It”: Envisioning Practices in Computer Games Development

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