Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "Nacke, Lennart"
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Personalizing Persuasive Strategies in Gameful Systems to Gamification User Types
Orji, Rita; Fortes Tondello, Gustavo; Nacke, Lennart (Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-04-21)Persuasive gameful systems are effective tools for motivating behaviour change. Research has shown that tailoring these systems to individuals can increase their efficacy; however, there is little knowledge on how to ... -
Positive Gaming: Workshop on Gamification and Games for Wellbeing
Fortes Tondello, Gustavo; Orji, Rita; Vella, Kellie; Johnson, Daniel; Van Dooren, Marierose; Nacke, Lennart (Association for Computing Machinery, 2017-10-15)Gamification and games have been used and studied in a variety of applications related with health and wellbeing. Nevertheless, there are very few studies aimed at designing games (whether serious games or recreational ... -
Recommender Systems for Personalized Gamification
Fortes Tondello, Gustavo; Orji, Rita; Nacke, Lennart (ACM, 2017-07-09)Gamification has been used in a variety of application domains to promote behaviour change. Nevertheless, the mechanisms behind it are still not fully understood. Recent empirical results have shown that personalized ... -
SIGCHI Games: The Scope of Games and Play Research at CHI
Nacke, Lennart; Cox, Anna; Mandryk, Regan; Cairns, Paul (ACM, 2016-05-07)The games research community at CHI has become an ever-growing significant part of the conference, demonstrated by the SIGCHI-sponsored CHI PLAY conference and the inclusion of a games subcommittee at CHI 2016. Given the ... -
A Theory of Gamification Principles Through Goal-Setting Theory
Fortes Tondello, Gustavo; Premsukh, Hardy; Nacke, Lennart (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2018-01-03)Goal-setting theory has been used for decades to explain how to motivate people to perform better in work-related tasks, but more recently gamification has also gained attention as an alternative method to increase engagement ... -
Towards a Trait Model of Video Game Preferences
Fortes Tondello, Gustavo; Valtchanov, Deltcho; Reetz, Adrian; Wehbe, Rina Renee; Orji, Rita; Nacke, Lennart (Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-19)Typologies for understanding players’ preferences toward different gameplay styles have gained popularity in research. However, attempts to model players’ preferences are based on type models instead of trait models, ... -
Towards Understanding the Importance of Co-Located Gameplay
Wehbe, Rina Renee; Nacke, Lennart (Association for Computing Machinery, 2015-10-05)Analyzing the social con¬text present in a gameplay environment and its effect on player experience can provide insights informing the design and social value of games. We investigate the influence of social condition ...