Gamify Your Life – My Epic Quest of Awesome - Eric Boyd

Eric’s Epic Quest of Awesome

Eric Boyd, [email protected] 19th, 2016

FITC Toronto

• Epic Quest of Awesome

• Personal Dashboard

• Human-Centered Design

• Gamification

• Get more done• Live an Awesome Life• Inspire others to do the same

• Fascinating movement of people using tracking to improve their lives; personal story telling & sharing is meetup focus

• Health & fitness dominate

• I always found the life-style and zany project presentations more interesting

Transport  Empire

Choose Adventure

what gets measured gets managed

(enterprise  gamifica2on  space)

Personal Dashboard

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Personal Dashboard

My Current QuestsValues  -­‐  FUN,  KNOWLEDGE,  TECH,  

LIVING  FOREVER

2015 New Years Resolution: ask more and better questions

2016 goal: 1000

Yoga - 100 sessions this yearwill require some weeks with more than 2

Wearables 2/5

Boss Battles?!?!?

Sacha Chua’s Epic Quest -

Evil Plans Goal Tree

Motivation Hacking

Octalysis Framework by Yu-Kai Chou - Actionable Gamification

PBL

Black Hat

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White Hat

Intrinsic

“Human-Focused Design optimizes for human motivation

in a system as opposed to optimizing for pure functional efficiency within the system.”

-- Yu-kai Chou (2015) Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (p. 8)

“It’s all about humans”

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Level Up!

• Loot– Kickstarter fund– New gear to support my fun (e.g. immersion blender)

• Open New Territory– Venus Society

• Upgraded skills / attributes / titles– Charisma +1!

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rewards should support your goals rather than

undermining them

Thank You• I’m Eric Boyd,

[email protected]• http://sensebridge.net• http://makerfestival.ca/• http://hacklab.to• http://digitalcrusader.ca/• http://meetup.com/quantifiedself-toronto/• http://diybio.to/• http://venussociety.org• Special thanks to Steve

Kamb, Yu-Kai Chuo, Sacha Chua, the Wendy’s

• Also thanks to the internet for lots of awesome images :-)