Sam Glassenberg is Founder and CEO of Level Ex, which makes video games to accelerate the adoption of new skills and treatments in medicine. While the hype persists around the healthcare industry's ...

No matter how much any of us enjoys our work, there are elements that can become routine or stale or that seem like an unneeded drain on our time. Overcoming team members’ inertia can be part of the ...

Gamification, the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications, is transforming online news into an engaging, social and fun activity. It's quickly becoming the next frontier in web and mobile ...

Smart businesspeople have long understood the value of competition as a motivator. Performance leaderboards hold a prominent place in sales offices, on factory floors, and in other business ...

And Sebastian Deterding, a designer and researcher at Hamburg University, has had enough. He distilled his thoughts on “gamification and its discontents” into an embeddable 62-slide presentation ...

Brian Burke, research vice-president at Gartner, said: “Poor game design is one of the key failings of many gamified applications today.” Gamification is the application of game applied to non-game ...

Work isn’t what it used to be. The old model of clocking in, doing repetitive tasks, and waiting years for a promotion is giving way to dynamic, engaging career environments. Employers are learning ...

Gamification, using game-play mechanics for non-game applications to engage users and drive desired behavior, has become all the rage, or so it seems. Like any hot trend, there is a tendency to ...