“Why has gamification exploded in its popularity over the past two to three years, and what specifically is gamification seeking to achieve?” Immersyve’s president Scott Rigby addresses these questions and further explores how to apply principles of motivation and engagement to gamification in the newly released
By Geoffrey Williams, Christopher Niemiec, Ari Elliot, Jennifer La Guardia, Amy Groin & Scott Rigby Published in Diabetes Care (August, 2014) The Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) research program was conducted as a pilot evaluation of a partly virtualized intervention that delivered
By Scott Rigby and Richard Ryan Published in 2011 by Praeger (Santa Barbara, California) “As games mature, and the average age of gamers continues to rise, we can hope that game scholarship will evolve as well, and Glued to Games” is a good step
Mindfulness, Interest-Taking, and Self-Regulation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on the Role of Awareness in Optimal Functioning By C. Scott Rigby, Patricia Schultz, & Richard Ryan This chapter appears in the comprehensive Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness, released in April 2014, which brings together the
By Scott Rigby & Richard Ryan Published in Gamasutra | January 16, 2007 Introduction Gameplay strategies for motivating players largely focus on reward paradigms (“carrots on sticks”) that dangle the sweet enticements of hidden levels, provocative content, and variations on the Sword of A Thousand
