"Hey everyone, I am a student majoring in Information Systems with a concentration in HCI/ID/UX/HF. I'm working on my final project and we are designing a small scale social networking site. Were trying to come up with a sort of gaming system that encourages the users to interact with each other and the site. There are a couple ways to earn points: by taking quizzes based on stories, by sending different forms of greetings to each other, and by setting up goals for each other and achieving them.(Thats what we have currently).
Were having a couple issues though. First of all, we are trying to figure out what the logic should be for distributing the points. It is my thought that since quizzes have the benefit of being a fun task that engages the user, they should be worth the least amount of points. (Maybe each correct answer is worth 1) While sending messages, and making dedications to other users should be worth more. The second issue is what the points should be worth. We can not make them worth anything of physical value, as the site is supposed to be realistic and we could not feasibly afford sending out rewards. My thought is that points could be redeemable for site customization. Ex: a. New background images to choose from. b. New css color schemes. c. New videos or stories could be given. We have also toyed with the idea of making the points worth virtual stuff for some sort of virtual world. (Perhaps a virtual garden and with the points you can buy virtual seeds and watch flowers and plants grow over an alloted amount of time, or a virtual house and with the points you can buy virtual furniture to populate it). Finally Im thinking about allowing users to give away a certain amount of points at the end of each month (each user gets an allotted amount of “sharing points” that can be given to someone who really helped them out in some way). Any and all advice would be extremely helpful. Thanks, Tim" ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
