A gamified educational system based on the flow theory

• Grant number: 20/02801-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: March 25, 2021
• End date: March 24, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science
• Principal Investigator: Seiji Isotani
• Grantee: Wilk Oliveira dos Santos
• Supervisor: Juho Johannes Hamari
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland
• Associated to the scholarship: 18/07688-1 - Design and automatic detection of flow experience in students and teachers in gamified intelligent educational systems, BP.DR

Abstract

Gamification can be defined as the use of game elements outside its main scope. This concept has achieved positive and negative results in the education domain drawing attention to new in-depth studies focusing on providing better results in terms of students' experience. One of the deeper student' experiences that are highly linked to the learning experience was proposed through the Flow Theory and is called flow experience. In this sense, one of the main objectives of gamification research in the field of education is to design gamified educational systems capable of putting students in a flow experience. Thus, this project aims to propose a model to design a Flow Theory-based gamified educational systems and design a gamified educational system based on the proposed model. The results of this project can guide the design of more complete educational systems capable of providing a flow experience for its users. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SANTOS, ANA CLAUDIA GUIMARAES; OLIVEIRA, WILK; HAMARI, JUHO; RODRIGUES, LUIZ; TODA, ARMANDO M.; PALOMINO, PAULA T.; ISOTANI, SEIJI. The relationship between user types and gamification designs. USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION, v. 31, n. 5, AUG 2021. (16/02765-2, 20/02801-4, 18/15917-0, 18/07688-1)

SANTOS, ANA CLAUDIA GUIMARAES; OLIVEIRA, WILK; ALTMEYER, MAXIMILIAN; HAMARI, JUHO; ISOTANI, SEIJI. Psychometric investigation of the gamification Hexad user types scale in Brazilian Portuguese. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 12, n. 1, p. 11-pg., 2022-03-22. (20/02801-4)

OLIVEIRA, WILK; HAMARI, JUHO; FERREIRA, WILLIAM; TODA, ARMANDO M. M.; PALOMINO, PAULA T. T.; VASSILEVA, JULITA; ISOTANI, SEIJI. The effects of gender stereotype-based interfaces on users' flow experience and performance. JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION, v. N/A, p. 26-pg., 2022-12-14. (18/07688-1, 20/02801-4)