Socio-cognitive gamification: general framework for educational games

Szegletes, Luca; Koles, Mate; Forstner, Bertalan

doi:10.1007/s12193-015-0183-6

Cited by 12 publications

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“…There is plenty of models and frameworks guiding gamification design and development in different domains (Choi & Choi, 2021;B. Huang & Hew, 2018; J. T. Kim & Lee, 2015;Morschheuser et al, 2017;Szegletes, Koles, & Forstner, 2015;Wells et al, 2014;Wongso, Rosmansyah, & Bandung, 2014) and with different goals. However, most of them are not detailed enough to provide sufficient practical guidance, and some of them lack a detailed description of the design phase (Morschheuser et al, 2017).…”

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Gamification for behavior change: a scientometric review

Bassanelli

Vasta

Bucchiarone

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Gamification, which refers to the use of game design elements in non-game contexts, provides similar experiences and motivations as games do; this makes gamification a useful approach to promote positive behaviors. In recent years, the volume of scientific publications focusing on gamification has increased. It has been applied to different fields (e.g. learning and training, mental health, positive behavior and behavior change, personnel selection, employees training, etc.); in this way, the scientific community has spread out over different domains and with different aims. Gamification has turned out to be an excellent method also to provide a sense of community, encouraging social interaction in both present and online contexts, increasing competencies in work and educational settings. This has made gamification also a useful tool during the COVID-19 pandemic, in which it has been used to promote an active and interactive experience in the educational environment. As a useful tool for keeping users motivated, engaged and active, there is a wide interest in adopting gamification solutions for supporting and promoting positive behaviors and behavior change (e.g. quit smoking, ecological behaviors, food choices, civic engagement, mental healthcare, sustainability, etc.). However, the development of this research area has proceeded without a unique theoretical approach or a clear concept of the field; even though several studies analyzing the literature have been made, a literature mapping of gamification applied for behavior change is still missing. In this study, we use the CiteSpace software to examine 447 publications and their 20608 unique references on gamification applied for behavior change. The corpus of studies was downloaded from the Scopus database and refers to studies published between 2012 and 2021. Several methods were used to analyze these data: (1) document co-citation analysis (DCA) was performed to identify the pivotal researches and the research areas; (2) author co-citation analysis (ACA) was performed to identify the main authors; (3) country collaboration and institutions network analysis were performed to identify the countries and institutions that contribute the most; and finally, (4) keyword analysis was performed to detect the most influential keywords and their change over time. Overall, we discuss the findings and the need for a more cooperative and united community, in order to make the use of gamification applied to behavior change more effective, faster and goal-oriented. Hence, we introduce some future challenges to promote an improvement in the quality of publications in this research domain, as well as in other gamification fields.

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Section: Holistic Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gamification for behavior change: a scientometric review

Bassanelli

Vasta

Bucchiarone

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…Based on the analysis of related practices, it can be found that there is a clear trend when exploring BCI games in different application areas. The Octalysis framework combines the advantages of BCIs of enriching the interaction forms and realizing game control directly by brain signals [ 51 ] with the advantage of gamification that provides attractiveness, which can greatly improve the task accomplishment channels and training adherence. Moreover, the multimodal interaction brought by a BCI game can greatly enhance a user’s enthusiasm, improve a user’s acceptance, assist in the effective execution of related tasks and lead to the precise detection and estimation of the user’s state [ 52 ].…”

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Exploration of Brain-Computer Interaction for Supporting Children’s Attention Training: A Multimodal Design Based on Attention Network and Gamification Design

Chang

Xiang

Zhao

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Recent developments in brain–computer interface (BCI) technology have shown great potential in terms of estimating users’ mental state and supporting children’s attention training. However, existing training tasks are relatively simple and lack a reliable task-generation process. Moreover, the training experience has not been deeply studied, and the empirical validation of the training effect is still insufficient. This study thusly proposed a BCI training system for children’s attention improvement. In particular, to achieve a systematic training process, the attention network was referred to generate the training games for alerting, orienting and executive attentions, and to improve the training experience and adherence, the gamification design theory was introduced to derive attractive training tasks. A preliminary experiment was conducted to set and modify the training parameters. Subsequently, a series of contrasting user experiments were organized to examine the impact of BCI training. To test the training effect of the proposed system, a hypothesis-testing approach was adopted. The results revealed that the proposed BCI gamification attention training system can significantly improve the participants’ attention behaviors and concentration ability. Moreover, an immersive, inspiring and smooth training process can be created, and a pleasant user experience can be achieved. Generally, this work is promising in terms of providing a valuable reference for related practices, especially for how to generate BCI attention training tasks using attention networks and how to improve training adherence by integrating multimodal gamification elements.

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“…A major benefit of using Unity is that it opens the potential for future deployment of our app to additional platforms such as iOS, PC/laptop, virtual reality or augmented reality headsets, games consoles and smartTVs. Such deployment to these platforms in conjunction with the io:bio EEG system could be used to advance neurofeedback systems [29,78,86], gamification projects [87][88][89] and BCI testbeds [90,91]. There is opportunity for future expansion of the features on our smartphone app by utilising Unity.…”

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Development and Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Electroencephalography (EEG) System

Bateson

Asghar

2021

IEEE Access

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The aim of the study was to design, develop and evaluate a general-purpose EEG platform which integrates with a smartphone. The target specification was a system with 19 EEG channels and data stored onto the smartphone via a Wi-Fi connection. The hardware was developed using three ADS1299 integrated circuits, and the game engine, Unity, was used to develop the smartphone app. An evaluation of the system was conducted using recordings of alpha waves during periods of eye closure in participants (Bland-Altman statistical comparison with a clinical grade EEG system). The smartphone was also used to deliver time-locked auditory stimuli using an oddball paradigm to evaluate the ability of the developed system to acquire event related potentials (ERP) during sitting and walking. No significant differences were found for the alpha wave peak amplitude, frequency and area under the curve for the intra-system (two consecutive periods of alpha waves) or inter-system (developed smartphone-based EEG system versus FDA-approved system) comparisons. ERP results showed the peak amplitude of the auditory P300 component to deviant tones was significantly higher when compared to standard tones for sitting and walking activities. It is envisaged that our general-purpose EEG system will encourage other researchers to design and build their own specific versions rather than being limited by the fixed features of commercial products.

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Socio-cognitive gamification: general framework for educational games

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Gamification for behavior change: a scientometric review

Gamification for behavior change: a scientometric review

Exploration of Brain-Computer Interaction for Supporting Children’s Attention Training: A Multimodal Design Based on Attention Network and Gamification Design

Development and Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Electroencephalography (EEG) System

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