Background: Gamification and persuasive games are effective tools to motivate behavior
change, particularly to promote daily physical activities. On the one hand, studies have …

Motivational digital systems offer capabilities to engage and motivate end-users to foster
behavioral changes towards a common goal. In general these systems use gamification …

Social connections shape our behaviour because of peer pressure and social contagion.
This phenomenon is amplified in online networks by particularly influential individuals …

Over the years, gamification gained consensus among researchers and practitioners as a
tool to motivate people to perform activities deemed as tedious or unexciting. Hence, there …

Background: The incorporation of gamification into physical exercise has facilitated the
exploration of its mental health benefits. Analysing the nexus between gamified physical …

As computer games become integral to students' learning experiences, this dissertation
investigates the impact of educational game-based learning on mathematical outcomes and …

The term gamification has been introduced in the early 2000s [13] and has as central idea
the usage of game elements in non-entertainment application domains to foster motivation …

Humans procrastinate and avoid performing activities that they deem dull, repetitive, and out
of their comfort zone. Gamification was conceived to reverse the situation by turning those …