Application of game mechanism for real world task

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24650547
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: HIYAMA Atsushi 東京大学, 情報理工学(系)研究科, 講師 (00466773)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HIROSE Michitaka 東京大学, 情報理工学系研究科, 教授 (40156716)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 教育工学 / ユーザインタフェース / シリアスゲーム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Communication skills are essential in our everyday lives. Quantifying communication and providing feedback advice in an automated manner would significantly improve the skills. Therefore, we aim to propose a method to monitor communication that employs life-logging technology to evaluate parameters related to communication skills. For onsite communication, we measured frequency of smiles as a metric for smooth communication. In addition, smiling can improve happiness even if a smile is mimicked. We provided feedback results to users in a gamified form and investigated the effects of feedback on communication. For online communication, we proposed “T-echo”, a new trial system for intergenerational social mentoring communication. T-echo is based on the two concepts: “growing gamifictaion” and “calendar-based interface.” From the field study, we confirmed that growing gamification could be a good mediator between the elderly and the young.

Free Research Field

ヒューマンインタフェース