Episode 76 - Gamification
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
What began as Rob's excuse to talk about his favorite Mario games turned into a long discussion of research about gamification and its role (if any) in improving human behavior. We review the literature, the theory, and the anecdotes around this hot hot trend in every field from education to environmentalism. Is gamification the Fortnite of productivity? Or should it be tossed in a landfill like E.T. for Atari 2600.
Articles discussed this episode:
Morford, Z.H., Witts, B.N., Killingsworth, K.J., & Alavosius, M.P. (2014). Gamification: The intersection between behavior analysis and game design technologies. The Behavior Analyst, 37, 25-40. doi: 10.1007/s40614-014-0006-1
Sailer, M., Hense, J.U., Mayr, S.K., & Mandi, H. (2017). How gamification motivates: An experimental study of the effects of specific game design elements on psychological need satisfaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 69, 371-380. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.033
Hamari, J., Koivisto, & Sarsa, H. (2014). Does Gamification Work? A literature review of empirical studies on gamification. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.377
Fogel, V.A., Miltenberger, R.G., Graves, R., & Koehler, S. (2010). The effects of exergaming on physical activity among inactive children in a physical education classroom. Journal of Applied Behavior Anlaysis, 43, 591-600. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2010.43-591
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track the podcast. That's like reading in your car, but safer. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm your host robert perry |
| 0:21.7 | cruz and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts hey rob it's diana hey it's jackie how's |
| 0:28.5 | everyone doing so good i'm feeling really great i'm i'm all the way the number one spot in my |
| 0:35.3 | leaderboard oh that's good. Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | Jackie, stop. |
| 0:40.4 | She's flossing and orange justicing. All these fabulous game dances. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.3 | From Hit Game Fortnite. |
| 0:45.8 | Diana, put down that Pong machine. |
| 0:47.8 | It's down. |
| 0:48.7 | I got none of those references. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm so old. |
| 0:51.1 | You don't get Fortnite references? |
| 0:52.6 | Nope. I was at a, I was at a local, I don't know if it's minor league or whatever they call it |
| 0:57.8 | for hockey in Worcester, which is nearby to us. |
| 1:01.5 | And pretty much every time they put a bunch of kids on the Jumbotron, they would just all |
| 1:04.9 | get up and floss, like back and forth. |
| 1:07.2 | Everyone was doing it. |
| 1:08.6 | No, it's cute though. |
| 1:09.7 | It's like little kids. But it moved from like, I think, teenagers to like children under 10 who may or may not |
| 1:14.7 | have ever played Fortnite. |
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