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Animating Information Dissemination Through a Gamified Online Forum

Authors:
Shueh-Cheng Hu
I-Ching Chen

Keywords: Forum; information dissemination; motive; gamification; servlet.

Abstract:
Various online forums aim to facilitate information dissemination within particular knowledge domains. A successful forum needs active participation and contributions from individuals. Just like common information systems, most online forum systems were designed without consideration of motivating users. Gamification works of an online forum is presented in this article. The gamification work provides several game mechanisms motivating users to participate and contribute more actively, which eventually leads to a more effective platform for information sharing and opinions exchanging. The completed gamification work verified the feasibility of gamifying an open-sourced online forum system. In addition, a preliminary qualitative evaluation shows that diverse mechanisms brought different effectiveness and experiences to users.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: June 21, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-412-1

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Dates: from June 21, 2015 to June 26, 2015