GamificationAskMes

Habits & Gamification

Habit Threads

General Habit Acquisition

• Behavior Change Through Reinforcement
• Sticking with Habits
• Restructuring Automatic Habits
• How to quit quitting
• Techniques for Creating New Habits
• Habit Logging
• Late in Life Habit Change

Specific Habits

• Getting to Bed on Time
• Failing Successfully
• Developing Work Ethic
• Habits for Health

Gamification Threads

What is Gamification?

• "The process of using game thinking and game mechanics to engage users and solve problems." - Gabe Zichermann, co-author of the book Game-Based Marketing More from NPR and Wikipedia

• A look at gamification's applications and limitations from O'Reilly Radar

General Gamification

• Beginners
• Setting Rewards
• Applied to Fitness

Specific Systems

• Health Month

Criticisms

• Points and badges ... are great tools for communicating progress and acknowledging effort, but neither points nor badges in any way constitute a game. Games just use them ... to help people visualise things they might otherwise lose track of.

• "...gamification advocates ... (are) selling a pernicious worldview that doesn't give weight to literal truth"

External Links

Reading Recommendations

• Homo Ludens
• Don't Shoot the Dog
• One Small Step can Change your Life: Kaizen
• Which Books are Required Reading for Gamification?