Towards Engineering Future Gameful ApplicationsNIER
Gamification is the exploitation of game mechanisms for serious applications. In general they target societal challenges by engaging people in game-like scenarios. These mechanisms are so successful that there exists a growing interest in exploiting gamification in other scenarios where in general the fundamental need is enhancing people self-motivation. Notably, a major engagement could be necessary for students attending courses, employees with decreasing enthusiasm for their work, users lacking interest for certain applications, and so forth. In this respect, even though there exist disparate solutions to create gameful applications, they are intended to be built from scratch and stand-alone. This paper instead proposes a line of research, in the software engineering field by which gameful mechanisms can be bound to existing software applications to create gamified scenarios. In this way, potential adopters are only required to define the game elements and how they should be combined, while the remaining game automation part is obtained for free. Interestingly, this approach not only simplifies the adoption of gamification elements in pre-existing applications, but it also discloses the opportunity of enhancing the engineering of gameful applications as well as the management of the combination of multiple games.
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15:00 - 16:00 | A27-Software ArchitectureNew Ideas and Emerging Results / Journal First / Demonstrations / Software Engineering in Practice at Silla Chair(s): Patrizio Pelliccione University of L'Aquila and Chalmers | University of Gothenburg | ||
15:00 8mTalk | What should your Run-time Configuration Framework do to Help Developers?J1 Journal First Mohammed SAYAGH Queen's University, Noureddine Kerzazi Ensias-Rabat, Fabio Petrillo University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Khalil Bennani Polytechnique Montreal, Bram Adams MCIS, Polytechnique Montréal | ||
15:08 3mTalk | The SmartSHARK Ecosystem for Software Repository MiningDemo Demonstrations Alexander Trautsch University of Göttingen, Fabian Trautsch University of Göttingen, Steffen Herbold University of Göttingen, Benjamin Ledel University of Göttingen, Jens Grabowski University of Göttingen Pre-print | ||
15:11 12mTalk | Piranha: Reducing Feature Flag Debt at UberSEIP Software Engineering in Practice Murali Krishna Ramanathan Uber Technologies Inc., Lazaro Clapp Uber Technologies Inc, Raj Barik Uber Technologies Inc., Manu Sridharan University of California Riverside Pre-print | ||
15:23 6mTalk | Towards Engineering Future Gameful ApplicationsNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Antonio Bucchiarone Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, Antonio Cicchetti Mälardalen University, Annapaola Marconi Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy | ||
15:29 18mTalk | Software Development Data for Architecture Analysis: Expectation, Reality, and Future DirectionsSEIP Software Engineering in Practice |