Incentives, gamification, and game theory: An economic approach to badge design

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 359-376

  Easley, David ^a   Ghosh, Arpita ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Badges; Game theory; Gamification; Incentives; Social media; User generated content

Indexed keywords

BADGES; GAMIFICATION; INCENTIVES; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GAME THEORY; STANDARDS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84879766757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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