Eric’s Epic Quest of Awesome
Eric Boyd, mrericboyd@yahoo.com
April 19th, 2016
FITC Toronto
• Epic Quest of Awesome
• Personal Dashboard
• Human-Centered Design
• Gamification
• Get more done
• Live an Awesome Life
• Inspire others to
do the same
Transport	
  Empire
Choose Adventure
what gets measured
gets managed
(enterprise	
  gamifica2on	
  space)
Personal Dashboard
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Personal Dashboard
My Current Quests
Values	
  -­‐	
  FUN,	
  KNOWLEDGE,	
  TECH,	
  
LIVING	
  FOREVER
2015 NewYears
Resolution: ask more
and better questions
2016 goal: 1000
Yoga - 100 sessions this year
will require some weeks with more than 2
Wearables 2/5
Boss
Battles?!?!?
Sacha Chua’s
Epic Quest -
Evil Plans Goal
Tree
Motivation Hacking
Octalysis Framework byYu-Kai Chou - Actionable Gamification
PBL
Black Hat
Extrinsic
White Hat
Intrinsic
“Human-Focused Design
optimizes for human motivation
in a system as opposed to
optimizing for pure functional
efficiency within the system.”
-- Yu-kai Chou (2015) Actionable Gamification: Beyond
Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (p. 8)
“It’s all about humans”
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Level Up!
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rewards should support
your goals rather than
undermining them
Thank You
• I’m Eric Boyd,
mrericboyd@yahoo.com
• http://sensebridge.net
• http://makerfestival.ca/
• http://hacklab.to
• http://digitalcrusader.ca/
• http://meetup.com/quantifiedself-toronto/
• http://diybio.to/
• http://venussociety.org
• Special thanks to Steve
Kamb, Yu-Kai Chuo,
Sacha Chua, the Wendy’s
• Also thanks to the internet for lots of awesome images :-)

Gamify Your Life – My Epic Quest of Awesome - Eric Boyd