Gamification Coffee

  The need for backward engineering . I think I am accurate in saying that very few people, myself included, who are trying to create serious games for wellness think like this – i.e., like a game designer – about the process of gamification. From what I can tell, game designers think very deeply about the experience they want the game to promote, and then they work through the pragmatics of the game play that will facilitate this experience. This backward engineering from the point of view of the aesthetic/experiential goal to the pragmatics of the game is the opposite of what psychologists do when they think about gamification. Instead, we have parallel streams of development in which (a) we know that our “game” (read scientific protocol) is truly boring, and (b) we have to somehow decrease the snore factor. We think: “Hm, here is my very rigid experimental protocol/computerized intervention. I must overlay this protocol with some cute little animated guys, perhaps with a fun bac...

  When it comes to educating people about COVID-19, says Rick Thomas of LabX, a big challenge is the invisibility of the virus and the struggle to recognize when we’re making a difference, when we’re being overly panicked and when we’re simply being selfish.   Games, specifically their ability to visualize abstract subjects as well as their need to ask players to lean in and take an active role, can close that gap, says Thomas.  “Games are good to help combat COVID because games do a good job of translating data into stories and helping show people how individual decisions can impact larger issues,” says Thomas.  “That feedback is missing in normal day-to-day interactions with COVID. You don’t actually know if you got someone sick by not wearing your mask because there’s a several-day disconnect. You’re not being told whether what you’re doing is harmful, but in a game you can make the connection clearly. That’s why we got involved.”

Science and technology are on a fast track towards the elusive embodiment on the infinite horizon- destination, painted with the idealistic resemblance coating the edge of a deep cliff. Over-idealized technocracy is evolving the typical viewpoint of millennial, as they are motivated to place their one hundred percent faith in science and technology, supplant their stake of exertions with what machine can do for them, yet anticipate the favorable, justified while sustaining the competitive retrieval of the 21st-century scientific evolution.   While reading through some of the latest trends on  Deep learning  and  artificial intelligence , I arrived across a prevailing learning hypothesis; called the Gamification of learning behavior. The latter is primarily in reference to the application of game mode factors and recreation doctrines in none-recreation contexts. Gamification toils by employing engaging game techniques to leverage a person’s natural yearnings to enhanc...

Ever wondered why Memory Champions can memorize a deck of cards in less than 20 seconds? Well, everyone can do it! Here's how: The human brain memorizes information much better in the form of images. Mindless reciting, on the other hand, is extremely inefficient because it simply does not work in favor of the brain. The most common method that all mental athletes use is the Memory Palace aka the method of loci. The Steps To Using The Memory Palace: 1. Imagine a place that you are very familiar with such as your house or your school. Imagine that you are outside the entrance.  2. Pick a list of items that you want to memorize. If it is a list of words that can be easily turned into pictures (ie: apples, bananas, tree, house, card), imagine an apple appearing on the ground next to the door of the place you pictured earlier. 3. Open the door and walk in your house. When you open the door, the first thing you see is a banana.  4. Imagine a small tree appearing 2 inches in fron...

  What is the pegword method? The pegword method is a mnemonic technique that relies on you knowing a 10-item rhyme to associate 10 numbers with 10 “peg” objects.  Whenever you want to remember a list of items of your choice, you need to find a visual image to associate each item with the corresponding “peg” object. Then whenever you want to remember the list, run through the rhyme, recall the “peg” objects and the visual images you’ve “hung” on your pegs.  This is best illustrated with an example: How to use the pegword method The first step is to learn the rhyme to remember the peg words list. These ten objects form the “pegs” you can later “hang” whatever you want to remember on.  The Pegword Method: you first need to learn the peg words list Then, whenever you need learn a list of items, “peg” each item to the rhyme you just learned, by creating a visual image that combines the peg object with whatever object you’re trying to remember. For example, if you were tr...

分享一个让你爱上学习的方法，对于爱玩游戏的小伙伴效率更高哦。 如果生活是一场游戏，如果每做完一个作业都能得到奖励，你是否会体验到不同？ xxxx年，你出生了。出生在了一个平凡的家庭，父母等级低、金币少。你在小时候并不明白为什么“别人家的孩子”那么爱学习（打怪提高等级）。 直到你自己通过自动增长的经验到了10级，你才发现周围的人都已经12级以上了。他们通过学习得到的经验让等级远远超过你。这时候你也开始拼命学习，做好了计划表，买好了文具。 但是当你真的坐下来开始学习的时候，你发现你什么都看不懂。没学一会儿就没了兴趣，彷佛之前那雄心壮志只是幻影。 你没发现的是，你用了你10级的等级去挑战了15级的课（怪）。失败是必然的。 当你重新从5级的怪一路刷上10级的时候，你的基础终于牢固了。 叮，击败数学作业1.5，您已升级。目前您的等级为：11级。 往后你一路击败了各种各样的学科，预习，考试，直到你遥遥领先“别人家的孩子”。 如果现实世界能像以上这个假象那么有趣，你是否会有更多兴趣去学习呢？ 可以尝试制作一个虚拟人物。只需要纸和笔就可以了。给自己设置一个等级，经验和金币。 名称：xxx 等级：1 经验：0/10 金币：0 之后创造一个任务界面，在里面以任务的形式记录好你每天需要做的事，给出相应奖励（xp，gold） 任务 1. 做完数学作业。 完成后xp+1，金币加1 2. 模考拿80分，完成后xp+5，金币+5 3. 扶老奶奶过马路 😄，完成后xp+2，金币减5 金币可以用于商城购物。商城里面可以是各式各样现实里你想要买的东西，标价好要多少金币。这样一来你就有了一点买东西的自制力，和更想学习的动力（需要学习才能得到金币买想要的东西）。 商城里也可以加入自己的物品，例如玩游戏三十分钟，免学习一小时pass。 来体验升级后的快乐吧～ 这个方法叫做gamification 也可以下载habitica来让经验记录更简单

How can we concentrate while studying? I’ll assume that you like games. I mean, who doesn’t? When you hear the sound of leveling up or the experience sound from killing mobs, you feel a sense of accomplishment. After all, you made it into the leaderboard. Imagine if life is just like a game. When you read books, each page you read will grant you an xp+1 award. You carefully read the whole book to level up and fight the next boss: math quiz. When a teacher gives you an assignment, you get a quest+1 notification. Quest Complete the math questions on pages 12–20. Reward: Xp+5, gold+2 , teacher’s impression +1 The above scenarios have occurred in our daily lives. But the addition of instant feedback, awards like xp and gold, will make us more willing to do something. So now, you opened your textbook about biology. You finished reading the first chapter. The system immediately gave you a xp+5 award, giving you more reasons to continue reading the textbook. T...

Learning method: Textbooks Read the table of contents and guess what will be in each chapter Read all the headings of the chapter Get a notebook and start to construct the topics or “big bubbles” of a mind map Read every italicized word and any charts, graphs, and images in the chapter Add to your mind map anything that you remember without looking back at the textbook Start from the beginning of the chapter and read word by word Get a notebook, sheet of paper, or add on to the previously constructed mind map. Make two sections by drawing a line in the middle of the paper. Label the left section “recall” and label the right section “correct”. In the recall section, write down the gist of each sentence or important idea without looking at the textbook. After writing it down, check to see if it correctly corresponds to what it says in the textbook. If there are mistakes such as the wrong spelling of a scientific term, write down the correct form in the “correct” section. Finish reading t...