I am doing some research in the area of 'gamification' and the use of games to improve serious work processes. That and some emerging project work has led me to start reading: Reality Is Broken: What Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World:
by Jane McGonigal.
One of the areas I am interested in is how to use games to promote the performance of relatively tedious tasks that are still important, such as recording learnings for knowledge management. McGonigal gives a good example, the use of an alternate reality game called Chore Wars. This to promote performance of simple, but often painful household tasks. Nicely described in her book pp120- More about it here.
Without experience with it I would think that this is kind of game would work best with people that already have a positive experience with multiplayer games that use avatars. Still a useful example of what can be done with games to address less than fun tasks.
See also Jane McGonigal's blog.
One of the areas I am interested in is how to use games to promote the performance of relatively tedious tasks that are still important, such as recording learnings for knowledge management. McGonigal gives a good example, the use of an alternate reality game called Chore Wars. This to promote performance of simple, but often painful household tasks. Nicely described in her book pp120- More about it here.Without experience with it I would think that this is kind of game would work best with people that already have a positive experience with multiplayer games that use avatars. Still a useful example of what can be done with games to address less than fun tasks.
See also Jane McGonigal's blog.
2 comments:
Franz - LOVE your blog, it's a diamond in the rough. I recently led a strategy workshop around gamification. In addition to McGonigal's book (and delighted TED talk), also see:
- Sebastian Deterding's talk at Google
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZGCPap7GkY
and
- Prof. Jesse Schell's talk at DICE
http://fury.com/2010/02/jesse-shells-mindblowing-talk-on-the-future-of-games-dice-2010/
- Karen Hillis-Skipper, Ipsos
Great links Karen, thanks very much for the comments and information. Will pass along.
Franz
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