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Contents 1 Habits & Gamification 1.1 Habit Threads 1.1.1 General Habit Acquisition 1.1.2 Specific Habits 1.2 Gamification Threads 1.2.1 What is Gamification? 1.2.2 General Gamification 1.2.3 Specific Systems 1.2.4 Criticisms 1.2.5 External Links 1.2.5.1 Reading Recommendations 1.3 Projects

Habits & Gamification

Habit Threads

General Habit Acquisition

• Behavior Change Through Reinforcement
• Sticking with Habits
• Restructuring Automatic Habits
• How to quit quitting
• Techniques for Creating New Habits
• Habit Logging
• Late in Life Habit Change

Specific Habits

• Getting to Bed on Time
• Failing Successfully
• Developing Work Ethic
• Habits for Health

Gamification Threads

What is Gamification?

• "The process of using game thinking and game mechanics to engage users and solve problems." - Gabe Zichermann, co-author of the book Game-Based Marketing More from NPR and Wikipedia

• A look at gamification's applications and limitations from O'Reilly Radar

General Gamification

• Beginners
• Setting Rewards
• Applied to Fitness

Specific Systems

• Health Month

Criticisms

• Points and badges ... are great tools for communicating progress and acknowledging effort, but neither points nor badges in any way constitute a game. Games just use them ... to help people visualise things they might otherwise lose track of.

• "...gamification advocates ... (are) selling a pernicious worldview that doesn't give weight to literal truth"

External Links

Reading Recommendations

• Homo Ludens
• Don't Shoot the Dog
• One Small Step can Change your Life: Kaizen
• Which Books are Required Reading for Gamification?

Projects