MY LIFE.
A very brief history of the term ‘Gamification’ is that it was first introduced by Nick Pelling a computer programmer and inventor in 2002, but it wasn’t until late 2010, early 2011 that it really began to take off. Gamification is the use of game elements, with more common ones being coins, xp and power... Continue Reading →
I would say that in today’s world, it is getting harder and harder for people to be motivated to do household tasks. I attribute this to the growing dependence on technology that we have as a society with using it as entertainment and as a distraction. I also think that from an early age we... Continue Reading →
Doing training exercises for work can be a long and laborious task. It is usually filled with lots and lots of reading and answering questions and maybe doing a practical task too. There is nothing for you to work towards once you've finished a task or completed the whole session. It's just boring mandatory training.... Continue Reading →
During one of my seminars at uni, we were talking about the use of gamification to fix a health related problem. We were split into groups of 3 or 4 and we chose our topic. Our choices were drinking culture, obesity and eating healthy at school. We chose obesity and then we had to come... Continue Reading →
people working together by Isby Six (CC BY-NC 2.0) Sam: So this week in class Adam discussed the topics of Collaboration and Group work, as we progress closer towards Assessment Task 3. Liv: We wanted to share our experiences to other students, in the hope of educating them before they potentially get assigned into a... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2nhprIPsF8 For my final video project for ALM102, I decided to be guided by the question of ‘A balanced perspective is the key to understanding the contemporary surveillance society in which we live.’ I was all for looking at surveillance in a balanced perspective. The message that I wanted to convey to the audience was... Continue Reading →
To say group assignments are hard is an understatement. They are complex. Bringing a range of different people together with different views, for all to come together and complete a goal. As this was my second group assignment that I have undertaken at university, I can't really compare it to others. What I can say... Continue Reading →
With our prototypes all made it, it was time to test. To determine how we could test the prototypes we followed the Assumption Test template. It consists of first coming up with a hypothesis, which is what you believe the prototype will achieve. Then you write how you will test the hypothesis, next is the... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/-qmf6KKBXYU The meaning behind my video skit was to show people that you could be under surveillance at any time, both in the physical world and the virtual world. The talking afterwards was to get people thinking and wondering when they were under surveillance and if it was something that they thought they were happy... Continue Reading →
Now that our group had come up with some ideas, it was now time to choose a few that would be prototyped for the next stage. It was probably one of the easier stages for our group as we had come up with most of the ideas and now it was time to make them... Continue Reading →
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