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I’m going to talk about my involvement with Gamification+ over the past few months and how I went from being an intern to paving my way into a fascinating industry.Why gamification?Choosing my electives for my second year of study at the University of Brighton was proving difficult. Until I read the module description for Pete […]
Continue readingInjury Recovery: How Gamification Is Helping Patients RecoverThere are a bevy of injury recovery modalities being used today, and one, in particular, looks to be promising. This relatively recent means of injury recovery is gamification, which has been shown to have a “positive impact for health and well-being related interventions” based on a literature review […]
Continue readingRecently I was asked to contribute to an article about the use of gamification in advertising. With the help of our new intern Sofia Usman I did some research and found some interesting case studies.Word about gamification is spreading and of course the marketing and advertising industries were quick to adopt gameful design. Companies have […]
Continue readingKeep me entertained!​In 2017 I did quite a lot of travelling for work and holidays.Long distance flights like Malaysia, Thailand and Japan. If you have ever been on a flight like that you already know that it is not only tiring but quite boring after a certain point. To get over my boredom I decided to […]
Continue readingStories and backstage from the international gamification conference of 2017Written by Vasilis Gkogkidis Gamification Europe 2018! Time to talk about day 2 of Gamification Europe! Day 2 was also stuffed with loads of great talks, panels and a fantastic workshop. So let’s start!Melinda JacobsMelinda Jacobs joined us on day 2 to share her experience and […]
Continue readingThis is a guest blog spot by Kamala NorthongToday I want to talk about the Pasa Thai Machine, a gamification project by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).I remember when my foreign friends tried to pronounce my full name, and vice versa, It was pretty funny. Sometimes we tried to avoid saying the name of […]
Continue readingFree Rice is what I call Gamification for a good cause. It’s a project that helps improve people’s lives by letting you play a game. As we know games have this incredible power to engage people and keep them interested in a specific set of actions they perform inside what we call a game space. Performing […]
Continue readingKahoot is a free to use tool that helps you create fun quizzes. It was created for educational purposes and its mainly aimed at students of all levels of education but I think it’s very valuable for corporate use as well. Kahoot was created during a joint project that was started at the Norwegian University […]
Continue readingToday I want to talk to you about a gamified campaign that aims to change the way people think about public space. An organisation in the UK called Hubbub is trying to motivate people to stop littering the streets of London by giving them small gamified projects spread across the streets of London. We have talked […]
Continue readingToday I want to talk about another gamification case study called Save the Park. As we know, all gamification projects try to solve a problem in the real world. The problem in that case is that the National Parks Foundation, an organisation that strives to preserve national heritage parks in the United States, lacks money […]
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