3Positive Performance

Chapter Questions

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to answer these questions:

  • How do gamified systems correspond to positive psychology?
  • What does the acronym PERMA stand for? Why is it important for gamified system (GS) design?
  • What is immersion? How do gamified systems change our ideas about it?
  • What are the different types of flow?
  • What are the three drivers of internal motivation?
  • What are some methods for encouraging external and internal motivation?

Introduction

Games promote activity. When they are good, they can consume a large chunk of time and attention. Players will log in to a game regularly, often daily, for hours at time. Recently a man invested over 2,000 hours just to beat ...

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