Does Gamification Work? -- A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Gamification

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10. Self-Determination Theory in Digital Games
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11. The Flipped MOOC: Using Gamification and Learning Analytics in MOOC Design—A Conceptual Approach
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13. Serious Games in Breaking Informational Barriers in Solar Energy
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15. Gamification in Management: a systematic review and research directions
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17. Manipulating Leaderboards to Induce Player Experience
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18. Gamification in medical education
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19. Early Prediction of Student Profiles Based on Performance and Gaming Preferences
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20. Analyzing Gamification of “Duolingo” with Focus on Its Course Structure
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21. Playing (with) Democracy: A Review of Gamified Participation Approaches
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22. Designing gamified transformative and social marketing services
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23. Chirality-2: Development of a Multilevel Mobile Gaming App To Support the Teaching of Introductory Undergraduate-Level Organic Chemistry
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24. Millennials and Gamification: Guerilla Tactics for Making Learning Fun
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25. Work and Play
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26. Digitization and Visualization of Folk Dances in Cultural Heritage: A Review
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27. Measuring the effects on learning performance and engagement with a gamified social platform in an MSc program
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28. The use of augmented reality in a gamified CLIL lesson and students’ achievements and attitudes: a quasi-experimental study
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29. Why to gamify performance management? Consequences of user engagement in gamification
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30. Gender Moderation in Gamification: Does One Size Fit All?
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31. Avatar capital: The relationships between player orientation and their avatar's social, symbolic, economic and cultural capital
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32. The Model of Gamification Principles for Digital Health Interventions: Evaluation of Validity and Potential Utility
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33. Comparing Serious Games and Educational Simulations: Effects on Enjoyment, Deep Thinking, Interest and Cognitive Learning Gains
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34. Incorporating fantasy into gamification promotes student learning and quality of online interaction
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35. A gamification framework for the long-term engagement of smart citizens
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36. Does gender stereotype threat in gamified educational environments cause anxiety? An experimental study
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37. A virtual environment for learning computer coding using gamification and emotion recognition
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38. Using gamification elements for competitive crowdsourcing: exploring the underlying mechanism
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39. Fueling Pro-Environmental Behaviors with Gamification Design: Identifying Key Elements in Ant Forest with the Kano Model
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40. Emerging trends in gamification for clinical reasoning education: a scoping review
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41. The Effect of the Kahoot Quiz on the Student's Results in the Exam
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42. What do prospective teachers think about educational gamification?
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43. Designing a gamified e-learning environment for teaching undergraduate ERP course based on big five personality traits
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44. An Analysis of Game Design Elements Used in Digital Game-Based Language Learning
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45. Gamification and entrepreneurial intentions
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46. Exercise Videogames, Physical Activity, and Health: Wii Heart Fitness: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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47. Designing Effective Gamified Learning Experiences
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49. Personalization Improves Gamification
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50. Gamification is not Working: Why?
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51. Teaching case
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52. AR and Gamification Concepts to Reduce Driver Boredom and Risk Taking Behaviours
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53. Make-Believe in Gameful and Playful Design
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54. The influence of parental support and perceived usefulness on students' learning motivation and flow experience in visual programming: Investigation from a parent perspective
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55. Player Types and Game Element Preferences: Investigating the Relationship with the Gamification User Types HEXAD Scale
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56. Brazilian and Spanish Mathematics Teachers’ Predispositions towards Gamification in STEAM Education
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57. Initiatives and challenges in using gamification in transportation: a systematic mapping
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58. Investigating the impact of gamification components on online learners’ engagement
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59. Interactivia.ro – A study of a gamification framework using zero-cost tools
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60. A Review on Gamification and its Potential to Motivate and Engage Employees and Customers
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62. Gamification of the work floor: A literature review of gamifying production and logistics operations
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63. Would you like to play? A comparison of a gamified survey with a traditional online survey method
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64. Investigating the effect of gamification elements on bank customers to personalize gamified systems
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65. On the role of gamification and localization in an open online learning environment
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66. Digital Gamification to Enhance Vaccine Knowledge and Uptake: Scoping Review
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67. A scoping review of randomised controlled trials to assess the value of gamification in the higher education of health science students
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68. Business Simulation Games in Higher Education: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research
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71. Gamification as a Sustainable Source of Enjoyment During Balance and Gait Exercises
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81. Automatic generation and recommendation of personalized challenges for gamification
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97. Gamification of E-Participation: A Literature Review
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