Building Better Digital Badges: Pairing Completion Logic With Psychological Factors

Simulation and Gaming

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 73-102

  McDaniel, Rudy ^a   Fanfarelli, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

achievements; affective; badges; cognitive; completion logic; credentialing; debriefing; design; digital badges; emotion; gamification; goal setting; humor; motivation; performance; play style; psychology; psychosocial; social; sociopsychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958559614     PISSN: 10468781     EISSN: 1552826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046878115627138     Document Type: Article

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