Gamification of Community Information Systems

Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 (Information Systems)

Prof. Dr. M. Jarke 1 This slide deck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Gamification of Community Information Systems

Ralf Klamma, Mohammad Abduh Arifin Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS)

RWTH Aachen University, Germany [email protected]


Prof. Dr. M. Jarke 2

Agenda



RWTH Aachen University

•  1,250 spin-off businesses have created around 30,000 jobs in the greater Aachen region over the past 20 years. •  IDEA League

•  Germany’s Excellence Initiative: 2 clusters of excellence, a graduate school and the institutional strategy “RWTH Aachen 2020: Meeting Global Challenges”

•  260 institutes in 9 faculties as Europe’s leading institutions for science and research

•  Currently around 43,700 students are enrolled in over 150 academic programs

•  Over 7,900 of them are international students hailing from 120 different countries



Responsive Open

Community Information

Systems

Community Visualization

and Simulation

Community Analytics

Community

Support

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Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) Group @ RWTH Aachen

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Motivation



Service Development Tools for Communities of Practice



Goals of the Study

■ Develop and evaluate a gamification framwork that –  Can gamify a community application with less effort than

existing frameworks –  Enables all members of a CoP to gamify the community

application –  Can gamify any community application generated by the

Community Application Editor (CAE) ■  Integrate the gamification framework with the CAE



Gamification The use of game design elements in non-game contexts



Example of Gamification



Gamification and Information Systems Integration



Aspect-Oriented Programming



Comparison with Existing Gamification Frameworks



Requirements for the Gamification Framework



Use Case Diagram of the Gamification Framework and the CAE



Phases in the Gamification Framework



Actions in the Gamification Framework



Entity-Relationship Diagram of the Game Elements



Game Rules Example: Quests



Game Elements Configuration



Database Model of the Gamification Framework



Architecture of the Gamification Framework



Implementation of the Gamification Database



Implementation of the Gamification Services



Implementation of the Gamification Manager



Implementation Gamifier - Widget



Implementation Gamified Application



Implementation Gamifier.js



Implementation Gamification Visualization



Technical Evaluation



User Evaluation



Summarized Evaluation



Conclusions



Outlook

Gamification of Community Information Systems

Science