Gamification is the act of changing human behavior by making activities more enjoyable by making them more game-like. This could be as simple as adding rewards for completing menial tasks like giving yourself a gold star for completing all your paperwork. Gamification can also be done through more complex, corporate sponsored projects. To us, Gamification should be implemented without having to offer material incentives to change a person’s behavior. Over the past few months three attempts were made on the WPI campus to demonstrate this non-incentivized Gamification. The three experiments – "The Minefield", "Battery Recycling Bin", and "Trashketball" – brought about a variety of reactions from the students, faculty, and staff where apparent interest and amusement were observed.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Sitar, Nicholas Michael
• Corey, Jayson Alexander
• Bernardo, Shea Michael

Subject

• Learning
• Computing
• Culture

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042914-114258

Keyword

• Educational games--Design and construction

Advisor

• Zizza, Keith

Year

• 2014

Date created

• 2014-04-29

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright