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Toward an Open Platform for Organized, Gamified Volunteerism

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Lucas Morales,

Travis Mick,

Kurt Lyell,

Alex FielderAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 259 - 262

https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026313

Published: 25 February 2017 Publication History

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Gamification has been employed to enhance user attraction, satisfaction, and retention in a wide variety of applications. Its success suggests that nonprofit organizations and social causes could also exploit these techniques to enhance volunteer engagement and satisfaction. In this paper, we motivate the application of gamification to the activities of such groups, analyze the requirements of a gamified volunteer management platform, and present an overview of our prototype platform designed to address these needs.

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Kapsammer EKimmerstorfer EPröll BRetschitzegger WSchwinger WSchönböck JDürk NRossi GGordillo S(2017)iVOLUNTEERProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/3151759.3151801(366-372)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2017
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Toward an Open Platform for Organized, Gamified Volunteerism
1. Human-centered computing
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February 2017

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DOI:10.1145/3022198

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Rapp A(2021)A Gameful Organizational Assimilation ProcessProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34341724:CSCW3(1-25)Online publication date: 5-Jan-2021
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He ZDai XYamakami TInoue T(2020)Preliminary Utility Study of a Short Video as a Daily Report in TeleworkingCollaboration Technologies and Social Computing10.1007/978-3-030-58157-2_3(35-49)Online publication date: 31-Aug-2020
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