Towards understanding the effects of individual gamification elements on intrinsic motivation and performance

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 71, Issue , 2017, Pages 525-534

  Mekler, Elisa D ^a   Brühlmann, Florian ^a   Tuch, Alexandre N ^a   Opwis, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gamification; Motivation; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

CONTROL GROUPS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GAME ELEMENTS; GAMIFICATION; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; SELF-DETERMINATION THEORIES;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84940859888     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.08.048     Document Type: Article

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