Heuristic evaluation for gameful design

Gustavo F. Tondello; Dennis L. Kappen; Elisa D. Mekler; Marim Ganaba; Lennart E. Nacke

doi:10.1145/2968120.2987729

Heuristic evaluation for gameful design

Gustavo F. Tondello, Dennis L. Kappen, Elisa D. Mekler, Marim Ganaba, Lennart E. Nacke

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Abstract

Despite the emergence of many gameful design methods in the literature, there is a lack of evaluation methods specific to gameful design. To address this gap, we present a new set of guidelines for heuristic evaluation of gameful design in interactive systems. First, we review several gameful design methods to identify the dimensions of motivational affordances most often employed. Then, we present a set of 28 gamification heuristics aimed at enabling experts to rapidly evaluate a gameful system. The resulting heuristics are a new method to evaluate user experience in gameful interactive systems. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Original language	English
Pages	315-323
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2968120.2987729
Publication status	Published - 16 Oct 2016
MoE publication type	Not Eligible
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - Austin, United States Duration: 16 Oct 2016 → 19 Oct 2016 Conference number: 3

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Abbreviated title	CHI PLAY
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	16/10/2016 → 19/10/2016

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Gameful design
Gamification
Heuristic evaluation

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