The key will be making health tracking fun (just as Slack has gamified work communication to great success).
If your job is dull, menial, or unpleasant, will any number of free gym memberships, weekend retreats, or gamified work environments satisfy you?
In those cases, it's a bit more difficult to gamify our work lives.
Yet, even as every aspect of a Circle workers' lives become ranked and gamified, the work of the Circle's top executives—"the Three Wise Men"— often remains cloaked in mystery.
For Simudyne's simulations, meanwhile, the visualisations work to "gamify" the underlying algorithms and data, so that anyone can play with the initial conditions and watch the consequences unfold.
"People crave feedback on their professional lives," say Brendan Wallace and Adeyemi Ajao, co-founders and co-CEOs of Identified, a young San Francisco-based startup that has been hard at work at gamifying the job search.
He added that one thing that made the community appealing is that Gamify had put a lot of work into its properties to get them a very high pagerank on Google.
The gamified course design advocated in this work may have significant implications for educators who wish to develop engaging technology-mediated learning environments that enhance students' learning, or for a broader base of professionals who wish to engage a population of potential users, such as managers engaging employees or marketers engaging customers.
Irrespective of the goals of the studies, the works on gamifying education should be subject to the same level of skepticism and scrutiny that is applied to any other areas of empirical research.
Companies that we work with like Microsoft, Merck and Pfizer already utilize gamified management systems to help their employees and channel partners master topics and techniques including communication skills, management skills, sales skills, wellness, and a host of others.
Chinese multimedia artist and game designer Feng Mengbo's work often involves digital technology, from gamifying communist China and Western capitalism into a Mario-like platformer in installation Long March: Restart, to his Bruce Lee VJ Project which was at The Creators Project: Beijing 2011 event.
