NDLI: When Wii doesn't Fit: how non-beginners react to Wii Fit's gamification

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Cosley, Dan Sosik, Victoria Schwanda Reynolds, Lindsay
Abstract	This paper highlights the reactions of non-beginners to gamification in persuasive health technologies data from a month-long 15-person study of first time Wii Fit users. Participants represent beginners and non-beginners with respect to past fitness experiences and current goals, and we find that these starting points affect their experiences with the system. While beginners respond positively to gamified elements in Wii Fit, these same elements have a detrimental effect on non-beginners' experiences, leading them to abandon the system as a fitness tool. This suggests the need for gamification in persuasive systems to better consider the nuanced context of use, and we recommend ways in which tools like Wii Fit can use gamification to motivate users with varied levels of experience with the target behavior.
Starting Page	111
Ending Page	114
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450328159
DOI	10.1145/2583008.2583027
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2013-10-02
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Wii fit Persuasive technologies Gamification
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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When Wii doesn't Fit: how non-beginners react to Wii Fit's gamification