Validating game mechanics and gamification parameters with card sorting methods

Eva Villegas; Emiliano Labrador; David Fonseca; Sara Fernández-Guinea

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_38

Validating game mechanics and gamification parameters with card sorting methods

Eva Villegas, Emiliano Labrador, David Fonseca^*, Sara Fernández-Guinea

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La Salle School of Architecture

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3
Editors	Álvaro Rocha, Hojjat Adeli, Luís Paulo Reis, Sandra Costanzo
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	392-401
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9783030161866
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_38
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2019 - Galicia, Spain Duration: 16 Apr 2019 → 19 Apr 2019

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	932
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Conference

Conference	World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2019
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Galicia
Period	16/04/19 → 19/04/19

Keywords

Card sorting method
Game mechanics
Gamification

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Villegas, E., Labrador, E., Fonseca, D., & Fernández-Guinea, S. (2019). Validating game mechanics and gamification parameters with card sorting methods. In Á. Rocha, H. Adeli, L. P. Reis, & S. Costanzo (Eds.), New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3 (pp. 392-401). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 932). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_38

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Villegas, E, Labrador, E, Fonseca, D & Fernández-Guinea, S 2019, Validating game mechanics and gamification parameters with card sorting methods. in Á Rocha, H Adeli, LP Reis & S Costanzo (eds), New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 932, Springer Verlag, pp. 392-401, World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2019, Galicia, Spain, 16/04/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_38

Validating game mechanics and gamification parameters with card sorting methods. / Villegas, Eva; Labrador, Emiliano; Fonseca, David et al.
New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3. ed. / Álvaro Rocha; Hojjat Adeli; Luís Paulo Reis; Sandra Costanzo. Springer Verlag, 2019. p. 392-401 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 932).

Research output: Book chapter › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Villegas E, Labrador E, Fonseca D, Fernández-Guinea S. Validating game mechanics and gamification parameters with card sorting methods. In Rocha Á, Adeli H, Reis LP, Costanzo S, editors, New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3. Springer Verlag. 2019. p. 392-401. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-16187-3_38

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