Gamification of task performance with leaderboards: A goal setting experiment

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Highlights:

• Goal-setting theory was offered as an explanatory framework for leaderboards.

• An experiment found addition of a leaderboard on a task increased performance.

• Leaderboards performed similarly to traditional difficult and impossible goals.

• Individual goal commitment moderated the success of leaderboards as with goals.

• Goal-setting and other psychological theories should be explored in gamification.

摘要

•Goal-setting theory was offered as an explanatory framework for leaderboards.•An experiment found addition of a leaderboard on a task increased performance.•Leaderboards performed similarly to traditional difficult and impossible goals.•Individual goal commitment moderated the success of leaderboards as with goals.•Goal-setting and other psychological theories should be explored in gamification.

论文关键词:Gamification,Goals,Goal-setting theory,Leaderboard,Quantitative,Experiment

论文评审过程:Received 11 June 2014, Revised 10 June 2015, Accepted 11 August 2015, Available online 28 August 2015, Version of Record 22 March 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.08.008