The theoretical conceptions of game-based learning are different from those of traditional instruction. Indeed, the classical approaches of needs and task analysis seem to be not appropriate for designing digital serious games as computer-supported collaborative learning environments. This paper

Diese Dissertation ist auf den Internetseiten der Hochschulbibliothek online verfügbar. Developers are notorious for their dislike of writing in-ternal documentation. It has few value to them because its benefits are too far away in the future and distributed on the whole team, while the efforts of documenting are burdened on the individual himself. The resulting phenomena have names like free riding or tragedy of the commons. Software is an accumulation of encoded knowledge and a collecting pond for complexity. Its development is more akin to research and evolution than to an agreed path with an established goal. Multiple developers are engaged in an intricate joint endeavor, building on dis-covery, invention and decision making, flanked by sev-

and efficiencies, explaining how perceiving games as systems is both counterintuitive and counterproductive in the context of gamification. Instead, it counter-proposes an alternative mindset, a grounded theory interpreting the motivation of players for engaging and playing with artifacts. Based on that, it offers

Abstract—The explosion of user-generated content on the Social Web published from mobile devices has seen reporting applications grow in popularity from self-reporting style workout tracking applications like Fitocracy1 to community reporting applications like FixMyStreet2. In this paper, we

and experiences, and relate the results to answers from concluding interviews. Although the gamification had less effect than we had hoped, our experiment teaches valuable lessons about social effects and informs the future design of similar systems. 1

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Taking gamification to the next level A detailed overview of the past, the present and a possible future of gamification