Gamification

Paula Toledo Palomino, Armando Toda, Luiz Rodrigues, Wilk Oliveira, Lennart Nacke, Seiji Isotani Paper published at Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning Gamification studies in the educational domain usually focus on motivating students to increase their learning performance by enhancing their motivation. Classifications of behavioural profiles are often used for this (referred

Paula Toledo Palomino, Luiz Rodrigues, Armando Toda, Seiji Isotani Chapter published at Grand Research Challenges in Games and Entertainment Computing in Brazil - GranDGamesBR 2020–2030 One of the main challenges we face in the educational domain nowadays is the lack of student engagement in traditional teaching methods. One way to address this challenge

Paula Toledo Palomino Ph.D. Thesis Several educational gamification studies investigate how to encourage students to do specific tasks or progress in learning content. However, many studies are inconclusive about how much gamifying an environment helps or hinders these processes. According to the literature, most existing gamification frameworks are structural (i.e., points, badges, and

Paula Toledo Palomino, Armando Toda, Luiz Rodrigues, Wilk Oliveira, Seiji Isotani. Paper published at SBGames 2020 One of the main challenges we face in the educational domain nowadays is the lack of student engagement in traditional teaching methods. One way to address this challenge is through the use of gamification strategies, especially

Paula Toledo Palomino, Armando Toda, Wilk Oliveira, Luiz Rodrigues, Seiji Isotani Paper published at SBGames 2019 Gamification applied to education studies is often related to the student's motivation and performance in specific tasks. However, what stimulates one student does not always have the same result as another one. Thus, some methods were

Paula Toledo Palomino, Armando Toda, Wilk Oliveira, Alexandra Cristea, Seiji Isotani. Paper published at ICALT 2019 Gamification applied to education studies are focusing to encourage students to perform specific tasks, however many of these studies are still inconclusive about how much gamification can influence engagement. Also, the frameworks used to apply gamification