The literature around the use, efficacy and design of educational games and game-based
learning approaches has been building up gradually and in phases, across different …

Background Children and adolescents increasingly do not meet physical activity (PA)
recommendations. Hence, insufficient PA (IPA) and sedentary behavior (SB) among children …

Gamification, which refers to the use of game design elements in non-game contexts,
provides similar experiences and motivations as games do; this makes gamification a useful …

Gamified workplaces could be a positive and innovative solution to addressing
contemporary problems in organizations. Such problems include high levels of stress …

Rewards are commonly used in interventions to change behavior, but they can inhibit
development of intrinsic motivation, which is associated with long-term behavior …

Background: Fitness devices have spurred the development of apps that aim to motivate
users, through interventions, to increase their physical activity (PA). Personalization in the …

Work competencies can be defined as learned abilities to adequately perform a task, role or
mission (Roe 2002). In the workplace context, work-integrated learning approaches are …

Gamification features to motivate individuals to exercise have become a trend in the fitness
sector that is gaining popularity. It is based on the idea that adding fun and competitive …

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the use of an activity monitor providing
feedback has an effect on physical activity (PA) in young men. A population-based sample of …

In this study, every day activities are recognized from data collected using smartphones
accelerometer sensors. Offline experiments are made to show that the presented method is …