Do points, levels and leaderboards harm intrinsic motivation?: an empirical analysis of common gamification elements

By Elisa D. Mekler, Florian Brühlmann, Klaus Opwis, Alexandre N. Tuch. International Conference on Gameful Design, Research, and Applications, 2013

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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• Eigen : A Step Towards Conversational AI (2017, background): “Mekler et al. [2013] finds that websites using gamification elements like points, levels, and leaderboards positively increase the engagement of users in an image annotation task.”