ONYA—The Wellbeing Game: How to Use Gamification to Promote Wellbeing

The Wellbeing Game uses game design elements to promote wellbeing. Players document their daily activities in the game and categorize them to one or more of five wellbeing-related factors. The users join teams and can create team events to work together and improve their wellbeing status. The presen...

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Published inInformation (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 2; p. 58
Main Authors Tolks, Daniel, Sailer, Michael, Dadaczynski, Kevin, Lampert, Claudia, Huberty, Julia, Paulus, Peter, Horstmann, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.02.2019
Subjects
Cognition & reasoning
Computer & video games
e-health
Games
Gamification
health
Mental disorders
mental health
Mental health care
Motivation
Personal development
self-determination theory
Social networks
Systematic review
Teams
User behavior
User experience
wellbeing
wellbeing game
New Zealand
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Summary:The Wellbeing Game uses game design elements to promote wellbeing. Players document their daily activities in the game and categorize them to one or more of five wellbeing-related factors. The users join teams and can create team events to work together and improve their wellbeing status. The present study aims to review the application and the theoretical base of ‘The Wellbeing Game’, to adapt it to the German context, and to evaluate its health effects in different settings. Additional aims are to analyze the current state of research regarding the links between health, wellbeing, and gamification and to identify crucial game design elements that have to be implemented in the application in order to address the needs of competence, autonomy, and social relatedness according to the self-determination theory.
ISSN:2078-2489
2078-2489
DOI:10.3390/info10020058