NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Adrian Hon

Over the past decade, gamification has grown from a mostly harmless curiosity to a cheerful tool of manipulation and coercion that's being deployed against hundreds of millions of workers, students, and citizens around the world. By adopting the friendly aesthetics and instant feedback of video games, gamification puts a new spin on older forms of reward and punishment – one that is becoming inescapable thanks to smartphones, wearables, and ever-present sensors and screens. What responsibility do game designers in our newly gamified world, and are there ways to use gamification to promote human flourishment rather than manipulation.