Gamification is een concept dat inmiddels grote populariteit geniet en wijdverbreid wordt toegepast. In dit whitepaper onderzoeken we de mogelijkheden van gamification in burgerparticipatie. Welke kansen biedt gamification de overheidssector? Wat zijn valkuilen en risico’s? En vooral: hoe ga je praktisch aan de slag?
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We review the current body of academic literature concerning gamification of production and logistics. The findings indicate that production execution and control has been addressed most often in the current body of literature, which consists mostly of design research. Objectives and goals, points, achievements, multimedial feedback, metaphorical/fictional representations, and levels and progress are currently most often employed gamification affordances on this field. The research has focused on examining or considering motivation, enjoyment and flow as the main psychological outcomes of gamification in the given context, while individual performance and efficiency are the most commonly examined or suggested behavioral/organizational impacts. Future studies should employ more rigorous study designs and firmly ground the discussions in organization theory.
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Education is a key factor to respond to the threat of climate change, increasing not only knowledge but also encouraging changes in attitudes and behaviors to adopt sustainablelifestyles. Scholars and practitioners in the field of education call for innovative ways of engaging youth—a reason why gamification has gained more attention in recent years. This paper aims atexploring the role of gamification in aecting pro-environmental behavioral change and searching for best practices for educational purposes. For that aim, pro-environmental gamification platforms are identified and analyzed by applying two dierent frameworks: the Octalysis Framework and the Climate Change Engagement through Games Framework. After scanning 181 cases, a final sample of six is analyzed and two of them are selected as best practices with higher potential to engage users inpro-environmental behavioral change: SaveOhno and JouleBug. Meaning, ownership, and social influence, as well as achievability, challenge, and credibility, are seen as core elements that canincrease the success of gamification platforms. In conclusion, the more attributes are enclosed in the gamification design, the stronger physical and mental connections it builds up with participants.Insights from this study can help educators to select best practices and gamification designers to better influence behavioral change through game mechanics.
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Energy transition is key to achieving a sustainable future. In this transition, an often neglected pillar is raising awareness and educating youth on the benefits, complexities, and urgency of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency. The Master Energy for Society, and particularly the course “Society in Transition”, aims at providing a first overview on the urgency and complexities of the energy transition. However, educating on the energy transition brings challenges: it is a complex topic to understand for students, especially when they have diverse backgrounds. In the last years we have seen a growing interest in the use of gamification approaches in higher institutions. While most practices have been related to digital gaming approaches, there is a new trend: escape rooms. The intended output and proposed innovation is therefore the development and application of an escape room on energy transition to increase knowledge and raise motivation among our students by addressing both hard and soft skills in an innovative and original way. This project is interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary due to the complexity of the topic; it consists of three different stages, including evaluation, and requires the involvement of students and colleagues from the master program. We are confident that this proposed innovation can lead to an improvement, based on relevant literature and previous experiences in other institutions, and has the potential to be successfully implemented in other higher education institutions in The Netherlands.
The project’s aim is to foster resilient learning environments, lessen early school leaving, and give European children (ages 4 -6) a good start in their education while providing and advancing technical skills in working with technology that will serve them well in life. For this purpose, the partnership has developed age appropriate ICT animation tools and games - as well as pedagogical framework specific to the transition phase from kindergarten to school.
Veel kinderen in de leeftijdsgroep van 8 tot 12 jaar haken af op de sportclub door slechte ervaringen met goedbedoelende, maar vaak onvoldoende deskundige jeugdtrainers en door de soms negatieve sfeer op en rond sportvelden. Dat geldt vooral voor kinderen die moeilijk-te-verstaan (‘lastig’) gedrag vertonen ten gevolge van milde psychosociale problemen. Het project beoogt een gedragsverandering bij jeugdtrainers te stimuleren en daarmee bij te dragen aan een veilig en inclusief klimaat voor kinderen op de sportclub. Getracht wordt om professionals zoals buurtsportcoaches en clubkadercoaches, te voorzien van een gebruiksvriendelijke digitale tool voor het begeleiden van jeugdtrainers. Daartoe wordt via een social design-benadering gefaseerd gewerkt aan de verdere ontwikkeling van de digitale tool App4Support, waarvan we recent in een eerder project een Proof of Concept (PoC)-versie tot stand hebben gebracht. De verdere ontwikkeling van App4Support vindt plaats binnen drie werkpakketten: 1. Participatie en co-creatie – Sportprofessionals, jeugdtrainers en ouders ontwerpen gezamenlijk gedragsinterventies voor jeugdtrainers die aansluiten bij de realiteit op de sportclub; 2. Gedrag en empowerment – Via interactieve workshops beoordelen sportprofessionals, jeugdtrainers en ouders gezamenlijk op basis van praktijkervaringen in hoeverre de ontworpen gedragsinterventies daadwerkelijk positief gedrag stimuleren en negatieve interacties ombuigen; 3. Waardecreatie en opschaling – Gunstig beoordeelde gedragsinterventies worden geïntegreerd in de digitale tool App4Support, met bijzondere aandacht voor de gebruiksvriendelijkheid van de app, de prioritering van adviezen en de toevoeging van gamification-elementen. Dit éénjarige project wordt uitgevoerd door Hogeschool Windesheim in samenwerking met Feeton als bedrijf uit de creatieve industrie, met In Opbouw, Intraverte en Sportservice Zwolle als organisaties uit de sector sport en gezondheid, en met enkele sportverenigingen. Vanuit een social design-benadering worden pedagogische inzichten, innovatieve methodes, gebruikerswensen en digitale technologie gecombineerd ter stimulering van positieve sportervaringen voor kinderen met milde psychosociale problemen.
