@inproceedings{5b9e684a28fa4eeea1f3f75dd44601e2,
title = "Validating game mechanics and gamification parameters with card sorting methods",
abstract = "The article is based on the application of a Card Sorting to establish a criteria in accordance with the most relevant game mechanics at present. The evaluation has been carried out with experts in the gamification sector who are currently active. The study presented is based on the application of user experience techniques: interviews and card sorting system, which have allowed the first definition of the concepts applicable to gamified systems and describe, compare, eliminate, group and hierarchies three types of game mechanics, the most used, starting with the first definition criteria of game mechanics and what is not. The results are founded on a first approximation that indicates parameters to be taken into account in the possible application in gamified systems contributing with both strong and weak points of the three systems and allowing to establish a starting point for more possible closed evaluations.",
keywords = "Card sorting method, Game mechanics, Gamification",
author = "Eva Villegas and Emiliano Labrador and David Fonseca and Sara Fern{\'a}ndez-Guinea",
note = "Funding Information: To the support of the Secretaria d{\textquoteright}Universitats i Recerca of the Department of Business and Knowledge of the Generalitat de Catalunya for the help regarding 2017 SGR 934. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.; World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2019 ; Conference date: 16-04-2019 Through 19-04-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_38",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030161866",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "392--401",
editor = "{\'A}lvaro Rocha and Hojjat Adeli and Reis, {Lu{\'i}s Paulo} and Sandra Costanzo",
booktitle = "New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3",
address = "Germany",
}