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Game Mechanics in Web Apps

In Articles on 20 July 2007 tagged CAPTCHA, fun, game design, game mechanics, games, gaming, goals, Google Image Labeler, interaction design, IxD, LinkedIn, Luis von Ahn, motivations, play, user experience, UX with 9 comments

A while ago there was a discussion on the IAI members list about game mechanics on web sites. Andrew Hinton pointed to the Google Image Labeler and LinkedIn‘s ‘profile completeness’ status bar and asked: “Can anyone else think of a use of a game mechanic like this to jump-start this kind of activity?” (Where “this [...]