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Applying gamification to improve quality of life: exploration of the effectiveness of a game that empowers users to improve their quality of life

Year: 2018

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Gamified personal informatics offer us a chance to take responsibility for our quality of life ourselves. This study explores the effectiveness of such personal informatics; i.e. its ability to empower people to improve their quality of life. Within this study, two social challenges have been designed. Subsequently, their ability to improve a person’s health status and ecological footprint – as antecedents of quality of life – is empirically evaluated. Data analysis suggests that gamified personal informatics can empower users to improve their health (i.e. bodily functions as well as social participation). Within this study, a relation between personal informatics and users’ ecological footprint is not found.

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Authors: R.C.Y. Nuijten, Pieter Van Gorp, K.C.R. van den Dungen, Uzay Kaymak, Pascale M. Le Blanc, F. Dijstelbloem

Institution: Gemeente Eindhoven

Language: English

Topic: Educational Games and Gamification

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2902836397

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