Abstract
The commonly applied strategies for promoting compliance with public health and safety policies can be inefficient and coercive, posing a need to examine novel motivational strategies to aid in this endeavor. Gamification, which aims to foster engagement and intrinsic motivation towards mundane activities and behaviors, is one of the vanguard design approaches among behavioral change support systems. Despite the increasing interest in gamification, the corpus lacks studies on its effects on policy compliance. Therefore, this study examines the relationships between gamification design types, gameful experience, and policy compliance in the social distancing context (during COVID-19) using a vignette-based online experiment (n=937). Based on the results, gameful experience mediates the positive relationships between achievement and progression-based, competitive, and immersive gamification and policy compliance, while social gamification is not associated with gameful experience. The results provide evidence of gamification’s potential as a non-coercive method of helping people follow policies
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
| Editors | Tung X. Bui |
| Pages | 2943-2952 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-9981331-6-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Jan 2023 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Lahaina, United States Duration: 3 Jan 2023 → 6 Jan 2023 Conference number: 56 |
Publication series
| Series | Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
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| Volume | 2023 |
| ISSN | 1530-1605 |
Conference
| Conference | 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
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| Abbreviated title | HICSS 2023 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Lahaina |
| Period | 3/01/23 → 6/01/23 |
