Gamification Design Predicaments for E-learning

• Published in: HCI in Games: Serious and Immersive Games Vol. 12790; pp. 245 - 255
• Main Authors: Palmquist, Adam, Munkvold, Robin, Goethe, Ole
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2021; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Design heuristics; E-learning; Gamblification; Gamification; Information systems; Information technology; Instructional design
• ISBN: 3030774139; 9783030774134
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77414-1_18

We introduce how gambling techniques slurred as gamification can be abusive and how adapting it for HCI can lay a practical basis for unethical designs, both in the commercial and applied research sectors. Based on the original notion of game theory, we argue that these techniques can be pervasive i...