TY  - CHAP
A1  - Eggert, Mathias
A1  - Zähl, Philipp M.
A1  - Wolf, Martin R.
A1  - Haase, Martin
ED  - Cooper, Kendra M.L.
ED  - Bucchiarone, Antonio
T1  - Applying leaderboards for quality improvement in software development projects
T2  - Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts
N2  - Software development projects often fail because of insufficient code quality. It is now well documented that the task of testing software, for example, is perceived as uninteresting and rather boring, leading to poor software quality and major challenges to software development companies. One promising approach to increase the motivation for considering software quality is the use of gamification. Initial research works already investigated the effects of gamification on software developers and come to promising. Nevertheless, a lack of results from field experiments exists, which motivates the chapter at hand. By conducting a gamification experiment with five student software projects and by interviewing the project members, the chapter provides insights into the changing programming behavior of information systems students when confronted with a leaderboard. The results reveal a motivational effect as well as a reduction of code smells.
KW  - Leaderboard
KW  - Gamification
KW  - Software testing
KW  - Software development
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 978-3-031-33337-8 (Print)
SN  - 978-3-031-33338-5 (Online)
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33338-5_11
SP  - 243
EP  - 263
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dowidat, Linda
A1  - König, Johannes Alexander
A1  - Wolf, Martin
T1  - The motivational competence developing game framework
T2  - Mensch und Computer 2017 - Tagungsband
N2  - Competence Developing Games (CDGs) are a new concept of how to think about games with serious intentions. In order to emphasize on this topic, a new framework has been developed. It basically relies on learning and motivation theories. This ‘motivational Competence Developing Game Framework’ demonstrates how it is possible to use these theories in a CDG development process. The theoretical derivation and use of the framework is explained in this paper.
KW  - Competence Developing Games
KW  - Serious Games
KW  - Gamification
KW  - motivation theories
KW  - learning theories
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.18420/muc2017-mci-0130
SP  - 15
EP  - 26
PB  - Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
CY  - Regensburg
ER  -