Results from deploying a participation incentive mechanism within the enterprise

By Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, David R. Millen, Casey Dugan, Werner Geyer, Beth Brownholtz. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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LibRA (2019, unknown): “Increased social media interactions within the workplace, through platforms such as IBM’s Beehive, were found to improve both personal and professional networking, career advancements, and innovation [36, 37, 42, 50].”
"Working out for likes": An empirical study on social influence in exercise gamification (2015, unknown): “…& Korhonen, 2013; Simões, Díaz Redondo, & Fernández Vilas, 2013), commerce (Hamari, 2013, 2015), intra-organizational communication and activity (Farzan et al., 2008a, 2008b; Thom, Millen, & DiMicco, 2012), government services (Bista, Nepal, Paris, & Colineau, 2014), public engagement (Tolmie,…”
Studying Gamification: The Effect of Rewards and Incentives on Motivation (2015, background): “This idea is worth further examination in light of the increased use of gami-ﬁ cation systems in the workplace (Farzan et al., 2008 ), learning processes and educational environments (Jackson et al., 2009 ; McNamara et al., 2010 ; Muntean, 2011 ; Raban & Geifman, 2009 ; Rafaeli et al., 2003 ; Ravid…”
Do points, levels and leaderboards harm intrinsic motivation?: an empirical analysis of common gamification elements (2013, background): “While the aforementioned studies point towards a possible detrimental effect of game elements on intrinsic motivation [9, 23], this might have been due to users feeling pressured to engage in the social networking service of their employer [3].”
When social networks cross boundaries: a case study of workplace use of facebook and linkedin (2009, background): “participation points and found a short-lived effect [6].”
Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association (2013, unknown): “Furthermore, results from Farzan et al.’s (2008) experiment regarding incentives for SNS participation at IBM suggested many users patterned contributions in a way that would increase recognition from others and garner rewards.”
Does Gamification Work? -- A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Gamification (2014, background): “Points [4][13][15][16][23][27][34] [37][41]”
On Quitting: Performance and Practice in Online Game Play (2017, background): “Other works have looked at how people play games, and use computers generally (Farzan et al. 2008; Gutwin et al. 2016; Cockburn, Quinn, and Gutwin 2015; Grifﬁths 1993; Ryan, Rigby, and Przybylski 2006).”
Demographic differences in perceived benefits from gamification (2014, background): “Consistently with prior research on gamification (Farzan et al., 2008; Hamari, 2013), the results show that perceived usefulness, enjoyment, and playfulness tend to diminish with time using the service, suggesting that gamification could have some novelty value causing perceptions of usefulness and…”