Juho Hamari
Juho Hamari is the lead author of a 2014 literature review that asked whether gamification works. He wrote it with two co-authors for the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Who they are
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Key papers
Does gamification work? A literature review of empirical studies on gamification (2014), with two co-authors. The review collected 24 peer-reviewed empirical studies of gamification. Most reported some positive result, chiefly in engagement, enjoyment, motivation and the use of a service. The review found that the size of the effect depended on the context and on the users, and that services built around strictly rational tasks seemed harder to gamify.
Key ideas
The review set out the question that later work on gamification kept returning to: not whether it works in general, but for which outcomes, in which settings and for which users. It also listed limits in the evidence of its time, including small samples, few validated measures, experiments without control groups, several game elements tested together and short study periods in which novelty may have played a part.
Sources
- Hamari, J., Koivisto, J., & Sarsa, H. (2014). Does gamification work? A literature review of empirical studies on gamification. Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 3025-3034. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2014.377