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“While I do appreciate the accessibility that Duolingo has brought to the language learning community, I think it is highly, highly overrated. As someone who is qualified in linguistics and experienced in language teaching and learning, I can say that Duolingo simply does not work. This is not to say
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Although many companies enjoy the success of their gamified entities, gamification is not universally successful in reaching business objectives (Liu et al., 2017, Spire, 2012). For example, Adobe offered a gamified learning tool for its Photoshop software in an attempt to increase conversion rates following a free trial month, but
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Personalized gamification explores knowledge about the users to tailor gamification designs to improve one-size-fits-all gamification. The tailoring process should simultaneously consider user and contextual characteristics (e.g., activity to be done and geographic location), which leads to several occasions to tailor. Consequently, tools for automating gamification personalization
Arts & Lifestyle
“Recent decades of financialisation have seen a significant growth in art that mobilises various forms of money as artistic media. These range from the integration of material money (coins, bills, credit cards) into aesthetic processes, such as sculpture, painting, performance, and so on, to a preoccupation with more ephemeral thematics
Arts & Lifestyle
“Reports suggest that by 2040 the impacts of human-caused climate change will be unescapable, making it the big issue at the centre of art and life in 20 years’ time. Artists in the future will wrestle with the possibilities of the post-human and post-Anthropocene – artificial intelligence, human
Arts & Lifestyle
“The 2008 sub-prime mortgage crash looked a lot like the apocalyptic end of something in many American cities, but to Theaster Gates it was a new beginning. Gates, these days director of arts and public life at the University of Chicago, whom ArtReview likes to call “the poster boy
Arts & Lifestyle
What unites these various responses is the presence of trust and its kin. Richard Holton notes that there are characteristic normatively-laden attitudes which surround trust: ‘When you trust someone to do something, you rely on them to do it, and you regard that reliance in a certain way; you
Arts & Lifestyle
Holzer’s seamless integration of blunt remarks about power into public environments reaches new vertiginous heights at the Guggenheim Museum’s ‘Light Line.’ The centerpiece, an installation of LED lights climbing up the full ramp of the museum, features a stock ticker–like flow of aphorisms addressing power dynamics, warfare,
Science & Tech
Numerous studies have shown that setting a specific difficult goal leads to significant increases in employee productivity (Locke & Latham, 1984). For example, loggers cut more trees (Latham & Kinne, 1974; Latham & Yukl, 1975), and unionized truck drivers increased the logs loaded on their trucks from 60% to 90%
Science & Tech
Intrinsic goals were found to include personal growth, health and wellness, developing stronger ties in one's relationships and with one's community, and other goals more directly aligned with the satisfaction of basic psychological needs. Extrinsic goals included the pursuit of materialistic gain (such as wealth), physical
Science & Tech
Their ability to be instantly productive in achieving the goal they wanted to accomplish would immediately be thwarted because they would first have to learn how to use the website or app. Every task that they'd want to accomplish would require some degree of exploration to find what
Science & Tech
Related to this, one of the strongest and most consistent findings in the goal-setting literature is that people tend to show greater progress when they act towards more difficult goals compared with easier ones (Locke & Latham, 2002; Wiese, 2007). For instance, if I set myself the goal of