Lecture L22 GAMIFICATION

Play more computer games

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world (2010)

Games are the one of the most powerfulforce in the world

Can we use games to solve (boring, untasteful…) problems?

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Gamif icat ion

Gamification is the process of using game thinking and game mechanics to engage audiences and solve problems

game me•chan•ics

Techniques used by game designers to make games fun and addictive

lederboard

progression

Influence and status

Games are the most powerful motivation to influence behaviour

How can we usegame mechanics tochange the real world?

Too many cars…

Too many parking spaces… waste of space

20,7 circles around the world

Game play as a resource?

Each week we spend

3 billion hours playing computergames

At the age of 21 people have spent

10.000 hoursplaying computer games

Compulsory school is

10.000

hours

The time people have spent playingWorld of Warcraft is 5,93 million years

Evolution of man took

5,93 million years

Fluid intelligence is the capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge

Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use skills, knowledge, and experience

Evolution of Man gave us Intelligence

Playing games for 10.000 hours means you are a virtuoso in something

What about games?

Real life can be soboooooring

But this will change…

And we know who will change this

Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter (2010)

Why should we take gamesseriously?

Clearly people are wasting time

How will this impact jobs, society and everything?

But we need scientific evidence

Ok, step into the lab

Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games (2012)

“ ... people who play action games far outperform the people who don’t”

- Green and Bavelier’s experiment

Better in problem

solving

Better in unknown

situations

Better in exploring

new options

Track more objects

Better in monitoring

cluttered world

Better at processing

visual stream of

information

And when you are hiring a person to do a job for you, what is your first interview question?

Do you play video games?

Play more computer games

And make sure your kids plays computer games

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