Athanasios Mazarakis, Paula Bräuer (2020). First
Directions for Using Gamification to Motivate for Open Access
[Preprint]. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03681v1
Most scientists are aware that, in addition to the traditional
and subscription-based publication model, there is also the possibility
of publishing their research in open access. Various surveys show that
scientists are in favour of this new model. Nevertheless, the transition
to open access has been very slow so far. In order to accelerate this
process, we are looking for new opportunities to create incentives for
researchers to deal with the topic of open access. In a field study with
28 participants the effects of the game design elements badge and
progress bar on the motivation when working on an online quiz on the
topic of open access are examined. In our study both game design
elements provide a statistically significant increase in the number of
questions answered compared to a control group. This suggests that
gamification is useful to motivate for open access.
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