How Multidisciplinary is Gamification Research?: Results from a Scoping Review

Nicholas O'Donnell; Dennis L. Kappen; Zachary Fitz-Walter; Christoph Sebastian Deterding; Lennart E. Nacke; Daniel Johnson

doi:10.1145/3130859.3131412

How Multidisciplinary is Gamification Research? Results from a Scoping Review

Nicholas O'Donnell, Dennis L. Kappen, Zachary Fitz-Walter, Christoph Sebastian Deterding, Lennart E. Nacke, Daniel Johnson

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Abstract

Gamification has been repeatedly framed as an emerging multidisciplinary research field. However, it is unclear how multidisciplinary the field actually is. To answer this question, this paper presents initial results of a broader scoping review of gamification research published between 2010 and 2016. Close to 2,000 peer-reviewed English-language journal and conference papers were identified across 11 databases and categorized by discipline. Results indicate an explosive growth of literature peaking in 2015. Early on, Information and Computing Science dominated the field, to be overtaken by the sum of other disciplines in 2013, education, economics and tourism in specific. This indicates that gamification was initially a field within computer science and HCI and has only recently become truly multi-disciplinary.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY'17 Extended Abstracts
Publisher	ACM
Pages	445-452
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781450351119
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131412
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2017
Event	The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - Parkhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 15 Oct 2017 → 18 Oct 2017 https://chiplay.acm.org/2017/

Conference

Conference	The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Abbreviated title	CHI PLAY 2017
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	15/10/17 → 18/10/17
Internet address	https://chiplay.acm.org/2017/

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