Towards a sustainable gamification impact

Gamification is defined as the use of game elements in a non-gaming context. It is been getting a lot of attention in recent years. However, the number of research done on gamification is limited. One of the problems it faces is sustainability. Designers might overlook the elements that increase sustainability due to lack of a standard framework that contains the essential components to achieve that goal. This conceptual paper proposes a framework that aims to increase the sustainability of the desired impact of gamified applications. This framework contains the following components: flow, relatedness, purpose, autonomy and mastery in the design of gamified applications. The proposed framework will help to guide future work in the field of games and gamification. In the future we aim to study the framework further and test its application in real environments.

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