Disassembling Gamification: The Effects of Points and Meaning on User Motivation and Performance

Elisa D. Mekler; Alexandre N. Tuch; Florian Brühlmann; Klaus Opwis

doi:10.1145/2468356.2468559

Disassembling Gamification: The Effects of Points and Meaning on User Motivation and Performance

Elisa D. Mekler
, Alexandre N. Tuch
, Florian Brühlmann
, Klaus Opwis

Not published at Aalto University

University of Copenhagen
University of Basel

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Abstract

Interest in gamification is growing steadily. But as the underlying mechanisms of gamification are not well understood yet, a closer examination of a gamified activity’s meaning and individual game design elements may provide more insights. We examine the effects of points – a basic element of gamification, – and meaningful framing – acknowledging participants’ contribution to a scientific cause, – on intrinsic motivation and performance in an online image annotation task. Based on these findings, we discuss implications and opportunities for future research on gamification.

Original language	English
Pages	1137-1142
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468559
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2013
MoE publication type	Not Eligible
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Paris, France Duration: 27 Apr 2013 → 2 May 2013 Conference number: 31 http://chi2013.acm.org/

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	27/04/2013 → 02/05/2013
Internet address	http://chi2013.acm.org/

Keywords

Gameful design
Games with a purpose
Gamification
Meaning
Motivation

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