gamification Tag

Games for Health was awesome! Two weeks ago I gave a talk and demo at Ludica Medica II: Medical Modeling, Simulation, Learning & Training with Videogames & Videogame Technologies, an all-day event as part of the Games for Health Conference week in Boston. The...

A variety of folks have been reacting to Ian Bogost's "Gamification is Bullshit" post today (with which, for the record, I largely concur.) This is one of my favorite responses. The whole essay is fantastic, but I want to take a second to point out something of an aside of Mr. Nelson's:
"...perhaps we could also read from the large body of research in areas like cognitive behavioral therapy, which includes a lot of thinking on quite relevant questions, such as how to use extrinsic interventions in a way that guides a user towards intrinsic motivation, rather than making them dependent on Skinner-box-like motivational approaches"

...in my opinion, little to none of it good.  For the moment, I just want to point out this little gem from Worlds In Motions blog coverage of the "Is The Word 'Gamification' as Stupid as It Seems?" debate at GDC: "[Jesse] Schell spoke at the...