Gamification Technique: Normalizers
Are opposite of boosters, they level set players in the system to be easier to compete against and also provides an additional level of challenge.
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Gamification Technique: Quests
A quest by definition is a journey or expedition where challenges are overcome and in gamification we want this to result in a reward. Users may need to complete a mission or series of missions before they can progress to the next stages of the system. In other environments, a user may have to fulfill …
Gamification Technique: Relative Leaderboard
A relative leaderboard only shows a number of people above you and below you based on your ranking. So your position on the leaderboard is effectively the guide point and base of which other results you see.
Gamification Technique: Rolling Rewards
This technique is often used to roll over prizes/rewards, it tends to build up slowly and after a few weeks the amount is significant enough to attract more participants. Some people will join because of the chance to win and others for the challenge, the higher the stakes the higher the attraction rate. The difficulty …
Gamification Technique: Social Leaderboard
A version of a relative leaderboard that shows only users from a user’s connected social network such as Facebook.
Gamification Technique: Time Pressured Event
To level the playing field or to give players more hope of achieving a next level, game designers often build in time-bound challenges, which can earn you extra points or very specific rewards. This past weekend Candy Crush set a challenge to crush as many green candies as possible, in return it earned power up …
Gamification Technique: Virtual In-Game Economy
is an emergent economy existing in a virtual persistent world, usually exchanging virtual goods in the context of an Internet game. People enter these virtual economies for recreation and entertainment rather than necessity, which means that virtual economies lack the aspects of a real economy that are not considered to be “fun” (for instance, avatars …
EMI: Cognitive Cycle
It has been conjectured that a full WM processing sequence from input to output, called a “cognitive cycle,” takes a minimum of 200 msec (Baars & Franklin, 2003). This is equivalent to a maximum of about four or five decisions or goal formations or executions per second. In EMI, during episodic model generation, users may …
EMI: Cognitive Load
cognitive load theory (Sweller, 1988), which posits that “goal attainment and schema acquisition may be two largely unrelated and even incompatible processes” (p. 283). In other words, the demand for resources in performance type reasoning activities in System 2, compete with resources available for learning. According to CLT, there are three types of cognitive load: …