Gamicon 48v 2022
Schedule GMT -04:00 America/New_York
Event Welcome
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Event Welcome Kickoff to Gamified Player Journey Monica Cornet GamiCon Gamemaster Jonathan Peters, PhD Sententia, Inc. Bernardo Letayf BLUERABBIT
The Future of Gamification
Monica Cornetti
Gamification, defined as “the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems,” is becoming core to engagement strategy for brands across industries from healthcare to automobiles to electronics. It is much more than a point system or cute game features. Based on…
Inspiration Exchange
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Theory of Gamification: What, Why, and How?
Claire Seldon
* Defining gamification * Understanding the elements of game * Applying gamification to simple worksheets — a practical activity
Playing the “New” Game
Jimbo Clark
Playing a new game allows for new results. New win conditions, new constraints, a willingness to "cheat" against your previous constraints and finding a new player community willing to play this new game. Are you winning a game you no longer want to play? Are you losing your game because…
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Help Your Learners Reveal Their Resilience Strategy Through Gameplay
Shane Yan
The session introduces Gro!, a card game that allows players to have fun and interact with one another. Beyond picking up some tips about permaculture and agriculture, Gro cards have surprised players with a depth of discovery and awareness— helping them learn more about their strengths, resilience strategy and blind…
Developing Virtual Tournaments to Engage and Recognize Your People
Vaughan O'Leary
Why the tournament is important for our people Why the tournament is important for my team The process of developing our campaign and implementation By the end of the session, I hope you will have some ideas on how you could run your own virtual (or in-person) tournament
The Game-Changer for a Fatigued, Disengaged Conscious Brain
Rajib Chowdhury
What is the game-changer for a fatigued, disengaged conscious brain that is in a state of resistance? Gamification! Why? Because it creates a state of play at the subconscious level, builds engagement at a core belief level, and brings about transformation in conscious behaviors and subsequently business results. If you…
Race for Rockets: 3 Keys to Building an Engaging Management Game
Amit Garg
With the pandemic, classroom training has largely reduced in India. While companies are adapting to live virtual facilitation, issues surrounding technology, engagement, and participation persist. Experiential learning is being replaced by lectures; teams are operating in silos and there is little interaction between participants.
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Personalized Gamification
Mohammed Abdelaty Ahmed
When designing and implementing gamification it is essential that we consider the player persona(s), learning style, and dynamic difficulty of adaptive interacting storytelling. In this first of its kind presentation, you will: Determine the different students’ learning profiles that can be recognized in an interactive storytelling platform. Determine how we…
Mapping a Player Journey
Bernardo Letayf
Learn how I create player journeys. We will get directly to work on it. This time, you will be assigned a specific task with activities that must be organized and balanced to help the players level up. You will learn to use the JoGen to ensure your journey is perfectly…
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Learning is Another Word for Fun: Why We Don't Need to Gamify Boring Learning
Sarah Le-Fevre
Learning is the fundamental building block of experiences which are “fun.” Use 'gamification' to make learning 'engaging' or more palatable. Well-designed learning will necessarily resemble 'games' because if it's not fun, then it isn't learning. Let’s reflect on the nature of the relationship between learning and fun and workshop experiences…
Gamification to Transform Challenges into Change
Bart Hufen
Gamification is a tool for continuous improvement. In this session, Bart shares a method he used to kickstart transformation (the GameStorm method).
Lessons Learned from 4 years and Over 200 Episode of Professor Game Podcast
Rob Alvarez
Lessons Learned from 4 years and Over 200 Episode of Professor Game Podcast
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Mission to Engage: A Simple Approach for A Complex Hybrid World
Rodrigo Borgia
Increasing employee visibility in a hybrid world via a simple image posting mechanism.
The Cheetah Way of Gamifying Your Business Goals
Anirudh Cheruvu
Accelerate your goals by crafting your gamified ecosystem.
Limit Break! Conditioned game actions as challenge engines. Press X to enter.
Javier Velasquez
Design non farmable actions that activate strategic thinking. Apply decision trees for strategic choices Create windows of opportunity to empower learners.
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Gamified Learning for Confidence, Retention, and Morale
Brit Morenus
Many companies are intrigued by gamification but don't know if it is right for them, feasible, or how they will get started. This session provides hands-on experience allowing the participants to see how to implement and maintain a gamified learning program. This is a case study style session that is…
What is Universal Design and How Can It Make a Product Better?
Joshua Doc Yavelberg
Join Josh “Doc” Yavelberg as he presents a design challenge then guides you to in a solutioning process applying universal design concepts to inform innovative and accessible products. This will be a full-engagement experience with a toolkit of resources provided to help guide your future universal design practices.
Shaping SCM Behaviors Through Engaging Simulations
SK Roy
Graynomics Simulation game is a cloud-based niche game which helps shape team behaviors in extended Supply Chains cutting across profit lines. The game lays down generic manufacturing-cum-distributions supply chain and the players collaborate with each other to help support the overall success of the extended Supply chain. The game provides…
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Validation that Gameplay is Better for Learning and Application of Complex Ideas
Mahesh Joshi
In this session, Mahesh will discuss how to quantify learning? How do you demonstrate the efficacy of your game? How do you capture retention of knowledge?
Developing with Students in Virtual Reality: A Postmortem Look at Developing a VR Game for Education
Ben Fulcher
Can Virtual reality be integrated into a post-secondary classroom? Can the creation of game projects be leveraged to provide students with the opportunity to design unique experiences while also developing measurable learning tools? The answer is yes. This session will examine the development process and execution of the game from…
Learning at the Level of Joy
Valary Oleinik
We continue to strive for the seemingly elusive learner engagement, but now more than ever we have the means at our fingertips to create immersive, engaging learning experiences that educate and connect us in virtual spaces. Whether it is through using beautiful questions that stretch our thinking and encourage people…
Designing for Results = ( Business Simulations x Gamification)
Andrew Lau
Most learning gamification solutions are happy to stay with Kirkpatrick's Level 1& 2 measurement, which is reaction and learning. Very little is designed for Level 3 & 4, which is behaviour change and organisational performance.... because it's really hard! This hands-on workshop combines andragogy, psychology, business theory, gamification and game…
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Gamification of Soft Skills for Hard People
Calvin Osborne
This session will discuss: How soft skills (decision making and teamwork) can be embedded through the use of games. How to create games for blue collar workers. How to design, build, and create a video based branching scenario game
Funding Your Idea
Christian Gossan
Have a great idea on how to transform an experience within your business, but don't yet have the funding or approvals to execute from your organization? This session will share tips (and traps) in forming your value proposition to get the funding you want.
Uncovering Genuine Behaviours with Gamified Assessments
Sufiz Mohd Suffian
Explore the applications of gamification in assessments. Apply game elements to trigger honest behaviours and actions. Combine immersive experiences with assessment frameworks.
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Beyond PBL: On the Quest for Meaningful Mechanics
Moe Ash
Gamification systems & game based learning designs are all about crafting a set of decisions & choices that are meticulously selected to let the learner experience a specific learning parameter. There is always a strategy behind it and a collection of mechanics that push the learners’ behaviors forward towards the…
Escape the PBL Trap: How to Design a Sustainable Gamification Framework
Essam Abdelghany
If you want to build a sustainable gamification framework that fits your program objectives you have to think like a game designer, you have to dig much deeper than just setting activities and contributing it to game points and badges. You will be introduced to three major game design pillars…
Rock your Gamification Project with Avatars
Sandra Abadir
Learn the different implementations of Avatars in a gamified approach and how it impacts your audience Customize your characters based on culture and organizational fit (variable case studies - USA, Gulf area, Egypt, etc) Avoid avatars going wrong - lessons learned Create your own avatar in minutes Use avatars in…
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Are We Gaming the System? Gamification & Ethics
Melinda Jacobs
Gamification is often seen as a quick win, a silver bullet. It's treated as if there is an inherent *magic* and *power* to game mechanics that, when implemented, act as human cheat codes that allow us to motivate (or manipulate) people. In this talk, Melinda will show you why this…
What is your play personality and how can you use it to develop killer learning experiences?
Dr. Alyea Sandovar
The Play Personality developed by Stewart Brown defines 8 Play Personality Types. By developing your learning experiences using your unique play personality you can deepen engagement and support learning motivation in your designs. During the session you will take a play personality quiz to determine what play personality you are.
Game Mechanics - Looking back to move forward
Adi Stephan & Andrea Hayes
Going back to the basics of game mechanics, understanding, and using those to create innovative, fun, and immersive game play solutions.
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Involvement is the New Engagement
Bruno Setola
Discover the 10 Key Player Motivations that go deeper than the typical focus on employee competence. There is more than simply achievement that drives people. Gain insight in the ways in which we can facilitate a collective dialogue on what constitutes working well together, and how we can streamline the…
Gamification Beyond the Hype Cycle: How Will We Enter the Second Decade of Gamification?
Maarten Molenaar
Dive into lessons learned: What did we expect from gamification in 2012 and what do we get in 2022? What should you know when applying gamification: What can you expect from the field now and how does it apply to your business practice? Peer into the future: from gamification to…
Design the Virtual World of your Dreams: IN 1 HOUR!
Eric Bubar
Virtual Reality and the so-called metaverse are poised to explode in popularity with the advent of low-cost, tetherless VR headsets (e.g. Oculus Quest). But how difficult is it to get into these virtual worlds? In this session you will learn how to CONFIGURE an Oculus Quest 2 for development work,…
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Post-Pandemic Pandemonium: Engaging the Online Student Through Gamification
Stephen Scheib
The world of higher education is returning to normal… maybe? The pandemic has shown us that online learning is here to stay. However, not everyone enjoys being online. Sure, they see the benefits, but they have better things to do when sitting on the computer (e.g., social media, cat videos,…
BookWidgets: Where Learning and Engagement Become One!
Rasha Morsi, PhD
This Hands-On learning lab session will review the BookWidgets tool. BookWidgets is a tool that provides an easy, zero programming way to gamify your training or course. It allows you to create multiple styles of interactive widgets and mini games as well as automated assessment in minutes. In the session,…
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Explore Pressure Through Play: Using Games for Team and Culture Building
Alexandra Suchman
In this session, we'll explore how playing games with colleagues and collaborators is such a valuable experience for building team culture and cohesion. Barometer XP co-founders will talk about how to create and facilitate games that inspire self-awareness and growth and catalyze the drive for change. The learning objectives for…
Creating The Art in Gamification Programs for Learning
Matt Rockman
Creating The Art in Gamification Programs for Learning
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How to Make Onboarding Not Boring
Junell L. McCall
Learn how to create an onboarding experience that will get new hires on board your organization's ship with ease and laughter.
Cooper the Rabbit - Reporting for Gamicon.US
Bernardo Letayf
Data, data and a bit more data. A quick look into the engagement of the conference. Check the results on who was able to slay the dragon and how far we were able to reach as a community.
Closing Celebration
The Legend
Stick with us to party!! Slaying a dragon isn't an easy task!!! :) Let's celebrate a huge achievement!