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Long-Term Gamification: A Survey

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HCI in Games (HCII 2024)

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In addressing the challenge of sustaining user engagement in gamified systems, this survey explores the long-term effects of gamification strategies. It emerges that success hinges on a nuanced blend of design elements, tailored personalization, evolving challenges, collaborative features, story-driven content, and dynamic updates. These factors are found to foster a deep-rooted sense of ownership, skill development, community belonging, and continuous discovery, all of which are crucial for keeping users engaged over time. This paper contributes by providing an early analysis of longitudinal studies, offering a valuable roadmap for developing enduring gamification experiences within the fields of human-computer interaction and gamification. Our paper advocates for further research examining long-term gamification in a more systematic and thorough manner.

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This research was supported in part by a grant from the Guangzhou Municipal Nansha District Science and Technology Bureau under Contract No.2022ZD01 and the MetaHKUST project from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).

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    Lei Huang, Chao Deng & Jennifer Hoffman

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    Justin Juho Kim & Pan Hui

  4. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

    Pan Hui

  5. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Pan Hui

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Huang, L., Deng, C., Hoffman, J., Hadi Mogavi, R., Kim, J.J., Hui, P. (2024). Long-Term Gamification: A Survey. In: Fang, X. (eds) HCI in Games. HCII 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14730. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60692-2_3

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