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Gamification and Affordances: How Do New Affordances Lead to Gamification in a Business Intelligence System?

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2017)

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Gamification provides new affordances when integrated into BI systems. The paper highlights visibility, editability, persistence and association as organisational affordances that motivate people to use a BI system through gamification functionalities. The study is conducted at a car manufacturer where, for example, rewards and leaderboards are integrated into a BI system that responds to game interface design patterns. The result suggests an affordance model that could be used to develop and implement BI systems better and increase the use in a company.

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Fischer, T.C. (2017). Gamification and Affordances: How Do New Affordances Lead to Gamification in a Business Intelligence System?. In: Stolfa, J., Stolfa, S., O'Connor, R., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 748. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64218-5_26

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