What is Gamification?
Gamification is the use of game design techniques and mechanics to enhance non-games. Typically gamification applies to non-game applications and processes (also known as “funware“), in order to encourage people to adopt them, or to influence how they are used. Gamification works by making technology more engaging, by encouraging users to engage in desired behaviors, by showing a path to mastery and autonomy, and by taking advantage of humans’ psychological predisposition to engage in gaming. The technique can encourage people to perform chores that they ordinarily consider boring, such as completing surveys, shopping, filling out tax forms, or reading web sites. Wikipedia.
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