January 15, 2019 In Gamification By Shuo Yang

Does gamification satisfy needs? A study on the relationship between gamification features and intrinsic need satisfaction

Intrinsic motivation is commonly considered as the most productive force behind people’s behavior [10][34]. However, it is often observed that people lack intrinsic motivation towards different activities they would like to undertake. Thus, many companies, educational institutions and workplaces are competing for these people’s motivational...

December 13, 2018 In Augmented Reality, Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

Cooperation or competition – When do people contribute more? A field experiment on gamification of crowdsourcing

Image Source During the past decade, advances in modern information and communication technologies have enabled novel forms of economic coordination of under-utilized resources be it human capital, information goods, material goods, or even funding. Perhaps the most noteworthy Internet-based developments that have made resource coordination more...

November 23, 2018 In Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

The gamification of work: Lessons from crowdsourcing

Image Source: https://www.stockvault.net/photo/176769/businessman-drawing-social-network-on-virtual-screen The increasing ubiquitous interconnectedness based on recent technological developments, such as the Internet and smartphones, has enabled new modes of economic coordination and management to become feasible, such as crowdsourcing [1] and sharing economies [3][9]. Although in the past, organizations commonly created value...

November 13, 2018 In Gamification, Logistics, Publication By Shuo Yang

Gamification of production and logistics operations: Status quo and future directions

  Image Source: https://www.leancompetency.org/lcs-articles/gamification-is-the-future-of-the-workplace-heres-why This article presents a review of the current body of academic literature concerning gamification of production and logistics to understand the status quo and provide suggestions for future research. The findings indicate that the execution and control of production and logistic processes has been...

October 22, 2018 In Augmented Reality, Gamification, Publication, Urban Play By Shuo Yang

Uses and gratifications in Pokémon Go: Why do people play mobile location-based augmented reality games?

Image Source:https://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2016/08/fad-or-fantastic-niantics-pokemon-go.html Launched in the USA on 6 July 2016 (and currently available in over 130 countries), Pokémon Go is a free-to-play/freemium mobile game based on a Japanese transmedia franchise and built on a pre-existing mobile game platform by Niantic, Inc. During the first two months...

October 12, 2018 In Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

Gamified crowdsourcing: Conceptualization, literature review, and future agenda

Image Source: https://www.stockvault.net/photo/174795/social-media-network---world-map Two parallel phenomena are gaining attention in human–computer interaction research: gamification and crowdsourcing. Because crowdsourcing’s success depends on a mass of motivated crowdsourcees, crowdsourcing platforms have increasingly been imbued with motivational design features borrowed from games; a practice often called gamification. While the body...

October 8, 2018 In Achievements, Awards By Shuo Yang

Congratulations to GG members’ achievements

Last week the Gamification Group celebrated the great achievements of two of our group members! Congratulations to Juho Hamari, who was selected as the Researcher of the Year, selected between Tampere University of Technology, University of Turku, University of Tampere and Aalto University at UC Pori. Pictures by...

September 20, 2018 In Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

Badges increase user activity – A field experiment on the effects of gamification

Image Source:http://www.howdesign.com/resources-education/gamifying-your-website/ During recent years, the boundary between games and other systems and services has become increasingly blurred. This development can be seen to be bi-directional: On one hand, within games, users are increasingly subjected to decision making situations pertaining to outside-game concerns (especially with the...

September 14, 2018 In eSports, Publication, Streaming By Shuo Yang

Social motivations of live-streaming viewer engagement on Twitch

Image Source: https://screenrant.com/twitch-streaming-service-down-outage/ Live-streaming is an interactive form of internet-based multi- media entertainment that has grown rapidly in popularity world- wide since 2011. Live-streaming has become so popular that, in some cases, there are more people watching others do activities, such as play computer games, than doing...