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Post by PaperGrace on May 26, 2014 9:58:56 GMT -5
(links below) From Wikipedia: "Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems.
Gamification has been studied and applied in several domains, such as to improve user engagement, physical exercise, return on investment, data quality, timeliness, and learning.
A review of research on gamification shows that most studies on gamification find positive effects from gamification."
Many of us use small scale gamification here on the site, be it the dice game, using smilies as rewards, or doing chat challenges. There are a number of different role-playing threads here, and I think a case could be made for Working In Threes as a gamification tool as well.
Some of us prefer a good old fashioned sticker chart or marble jar at home so we can see our progress in real time and in real life!
There are more formalized tools out there which gamify tasks! There are members of the SOoS community using Mindbloom, ChoreWars, and HabitRPG to personalize tasks and track progress. Some of us may have various smartphone apps we use too, and it would be great if we could share them! Some online lifestyle tools have communities as an outside wiki/forum or built right into the game. I found the 'Clutter Busters' guild in HabitRPG for example, and the woman who started it is battling hoarding herself and welcomed me warmly. If people here wanted to restart a chorewars party I'm sure it could be arranged (or we could try to contact the members here who have the power to add more of us as admin/gms in the existing adventure group).
I've started a post just below here with links to the tools I've mentioned above, but I'd love to have some links to threads here on our own site that review or describe them! Anyone willing to start a new thread with a review of a tool they use? I'd link to it below to help keep the community informed.
So tell us:
How are you using gamification to battle squalor/hoarding?
Is gamification useful to you, or an added distraction?
Are there forms of gamification that are more/less safe for those of us with reality problems or internet addictions?
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Post by PaperGrace on May 26, 2014 9:59:09 GMT -5
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Post by puppybox on May 26, 2014 12:13:32 GMT -5
great idea for a post.
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Post by PaperGrace on May 27, 2014 11:11:37 GMT -5
I know there is more than one member here using Mindbloom, anyone willing to do a review/description post for it in another thread? I have only used the 'Lifebloom' tree part, has anyone used the other tools I see on their front page?
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Post by sparkle on May 27, 2014 14:55:24 GMT -5
Games are not really my thing but I do like the idea of the marble jar. Now, did I or did I not give those away?
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Post by PaperGrace on May 27, 2014 14:58:26 GMT -5
Games are not really my thing but I do like the idea of the marble jar. Now, did I or did I not give those away? I look forward to your review of the 'Instant-Gratification Progress-Visualization Marble System TM' just don't use it as an excuse to buy every pretty marble you see at yard sales this summer!
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Post by sparkle on May 27, 2014 15:23:53 GMT -5
Found my marbles!
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Post by Louie on May 27, 2014 16:38:16 GMT -5
papergrace, thanks so much for this thread! I love games,I've just signed up to HabitRPG - it looks really good. thanks again
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Post by puppybox on May 27, 2014 22:31:23 GMT -5
I tried and quit Mindbloom because it kind of pushed me to address things I knew I should address but had no desire or willingness to work on.
I signed up for chorewars when people were doing it at soos a few years ago but I couldn't understand how it worked at all. I literally just made a profile and tried to do anything with it at all and could not find one way to do anything beyond that. That made me mad. Screw you, unintuitive site.
never heard of habit one. just the idea of habits = imposed torture to me. Isn't a habit the opposite of a game? its rules FOR LIFE that you have to do over and over and the game ends when you die. um. the site may be fun. love that a squalor challenged nice person runs it.
I'd also not heard of the marbles in a jar to mark progress. sounds very pretty. I had marbles once... I may have donated them as I don't know where they are. this seems like one more thing for me to have to try to remember and get off count with and then feel annoyed about.
I will recommend some low tech games similar to pick from a hat. these aren't new to the old timers around here but some may not know them:
task tic tac toe: you write one task in each square and play against yourself
roll the dice and walk that many steps away from computer (you could roll more dice to determine direction even) and tend to something there.
If you are really stuck, or depressed, randomly choose a colour or material and work on that. like: metal. or, blue. then pick up/throw out/wash everything of that type. this is a very weird way of working but if you are mentally stuck or depressed its very distracting from your thought loops. good to get started.
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Post by _Linda_ on Jun 1, 2014 13:07:15 GMT -5
I'm starting an online goal tracker to help me with forming better habits. It's called Joes goals or www.joesgoals.com. It's very basic and simple to use. You set your goals and determine how many points they are worth. Then set the opposite of your goals and determine the negative points they are worth. I'm hoping it will give me some incentive to do what I need to do.
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Post by PaperGrace on Jun 4, 2014 19:08:13 GMT -5
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Post by Unswamping on Aug 6, 2014 0:16:20 GMT -5
PaperGrace thanks for this thread. I signed up for mindbloom, ill see how it goes. Hopefully i will remember to use it.
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Post by wynken on Aug 6, 2014 2:55:31 GMT -5
I am again using Sciral Consistency. The free version lets me have 5 tasks, and a double click gets me a star. I can have more than one page - but the truth is - for me - 5 things to work on at a time is plenty. I don't need to go online to use the checklist, or mind / draw up hard copy.
An age ago I tried mindbloom, and it seemed to eat a lot of time - even just wanting to click on tasks done. Maybe they changed it since then.
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Post by def6 on Aug 6, 2014 6:56:37 GMT -5
Hello Papergrace I love games; no matter high-tech or low- tech...but currently I'm not using any websites or apps to help keep me motivated or track my progress. I am actually on a big fitness push right now (really the first time in my life at this level) where I exercise daily. Right now I am running on a basic routine of doing 1 load of dishes in the morning, 1 load of laundry and just picking up items throughout the house that tend to pile up such as: dishes , glasses, dirty laundry, some trash-- really just erasing evidence from the day before. Sometimes I'll do a quick swish of the bathrooms or swipe counters in the kitchen. I call this my "Hardly Working " method. I enjoy this method because I feel like I'm getting away with something. I'm out of the house by 8 am.
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Post by messymimi on Aug 6, 2014 8:05:48 GMT -5
Sparkle, i'm glad you found your marbles! Grandpa has a big jar of marbles on his desk. He says whenever Grandma tells him he has lost his marbles, he tells her, that no, they are right there on the desk where they've always been!
PaperGrace, this meshes quite well with the recent research on children who play video games. it seems that playing for an hour or so a day doesn't hurt them, and helps them learn skills like teamwork and the ability to solve problems, and it also stimulates empathy (i guess as they rescue other players or help each other in the game).
It makes perfect sense that even for adults if you make things fun, they will be more inclined to do them, and that includes housework or decluttering.
messymimi
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