Games are powerful. People can spend a lot of time playing games. Games are also great motivators. People do things that don´t even like, if they feel like they are playing game. Gamififcation is the use of game mechanics to motivate people to do stuff they generally would not do. Playing can also be very good of your brain and give you useful skills. In this lecture we explore some of the elements of gamification and why you should don´t worry about playing computer games.

1. Lecture L22
GAMIFICATION

2. Play more
computer games

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

5. Games are the
one of the
most powerful
force in the
world

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

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14. Gamification

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

16. game me•chan•ics
Techniques used by game
designers to make games
fun and addictive

17. lederboard

19. progression

21. Influence and status

24. Games are the most
powerful motivation to
influence behaviour

27. How can we use
game mechanics to
change the
real world?

30. Too many cars…

31. Too many parking spaces… waste of space

34. 20,7 circles around the world

36. Game play as a resource?

37. Each week we spend
3 billion hours playing computer
games

38. At the age of 21 people have spent
10.000
hours
playing
computer games

39. Compulsory
school is
10.000
hours

40. The time people have spent playing
World of Warcraft is
5,93 million years

41. Evolution of
man took
5,93 million years

42. 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

43. Playing games for 10.000 hours means you are a virtuoso
in something
What about games?

45. Real life can be so
boooooring

47. But this will change…

48. And we
know
who will
change this

49. Gabe Zichermann:
How games make kids smarter (2010)

51. Why should we take games
seriously?
Clearly people are wasting time

53. How will this impact jobs, society and
everything?

55. But we need scientific evidence

56. Ok, step into the lab

57. Daphne Bavelier:
Your brain on video games (2012)

59. “ ... people who play
action games far
outperform the
people who don’t”
- Green and Bavelier’s experiment

60. Better in problem
solving

61. Better in unknown
situations

62. Better in exploring
new options

63. Track more objects

64. Better in monitoring
cluttered world

65. Better at processing
visual stream of
information

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

67. Do you play video games?

69. Play more
computer games

70. And make sure your
kids plays computer
games

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