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Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2016 While gamification is becoming an increasingly popular tool in HCI, it is often criticized for not being meaningful. In this work, we present a new approach: narrative-oriented gamification, applied in the context of environmental conservation. A biodata-driven game experience was developed to raise awareness during an environmental non-governmental ...
Tennent, Paul +2 more
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Playfulness and creativity [PDF]
Current Biology, 2015 SummaryPlayful play is undoubtedly fun. Even so, many people think, incorrectly, that as they get older, they are no longer capable of such frivolous activity. They should heed George Bernard Shaw’s advice: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.” The motivation to be playful comes from within.
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Eludamos, 2021 ‘Playfulness’ is a concept used in various disciplines. In this article, we conduct a qualitative, systematic, and interdisciplinary literature review on the term ‘playfulness’ as used in recent scholarship.
Leland Masek, Jaakko Stenros
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The Relation between Teachers’ and Children’s Playfulness: A Pilot Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Young children spend considerable time in educational settings, in which traditionally, their primary occupation is play. A playful preschool environment has been related to better cognitive, social and emotional development.
Shulamit Pinchover
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2013 It was hypothesized that playfulness in adults relates positively to different indicators of subjective but also physical well-being. A sample of 255 adults completed subjective measures of playfulness along with self-ratings for different facets of well-
René T. Proyer
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Influence Mechanism of Employee Playfulness Personality on Employee Creative Deviance
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Based on the antecedent variable (playfulness personality) and the outcome variable (creative deviance) on the individual level, we introduce mediating variables (positive impression management motivation and harmonious innovation passion), integrate ...
Qiang Liu +5 more
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, 2022 This chapter engages with the notion of playfulness in relation to theatre audience research - and indeed, research methodologies more generally. It proposed playfulness as at once an attitude – a style or relational approach – that shapes how we do things and the methods or tools that we adopt; and also a ethos that informs our understanding of why we
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Influenced by the flowering of positive psychology in the field of foreign language acquisition research in recent years, the present study aimed to explore the perceived functions of playfulness, as a personality construct, among English as a foreign ...
Elyas Barabadi +3 more
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EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF ADULT PARTICIPATION IN PLAYFUL ACTIVITIES
Facta Universitatis. Series, Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, 2021 Playfulness in adulthood has been shown to be un-researched scientific issue. We believe that it is because of earlier non-recognition of this issue as a special field of study, but also the existence of a popular belief that the playful activities are ...
Dragana Jovanović
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The Positive Relationships of Playfulness With Indicators of Health, Activity, and Physical Fitness
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Adult playfulness is a personality trait that enables people to frame or reframe everyday situations in such a way that they experience them as entertaining, intellectually stimulating, or personally interesting. Earlier research supports the notion that
René T. Proyer +4 more
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