Explicating gamification: Reflections on CHI 2011...
Jim Cummings on May 14, 2011Last week I had a great time participating in the Gamification workshop at the 2011 annual CHI Conference. After having some time to digest, I wanted to post a quick summary of the experience and some thoughts on where it appears the conversation...
Know Thyself... And Then What?: Using Games to Pr...
Jim Cummings on Jan 15, 2011We’re hardly two weeks into 2011 and, undoubtedly, many of us are already struggling to maintain a hold on our New Year’s resolutions.Every year we make new promises to ourselves to take X in moderation or to do Y more often. But it seems we...
Another look at Zynga
Jared Lorince on Dec 14, 2010Travis's recent post on games taking advantage of evolutionary psychology reminded me of a conversation he and I had a few weeks ago. I had recently read this short article in Wired Magazine, and it brought up some interesting questions I'd like to...
On the Power of Gamification
Jim Cummings on Dec 7, 2010Gamification is the word on the lips (or keyboarding fingers) of all those making, playing, leveraging, and studying games this year (thanks, in no small part, to a series of presentations that academic-designer Jesse Schell has given in the last 12...