The Goal

We are in the design and planning phase of a new climate change impact planning website (related to "UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"). The portal will recommend a set of actions that ordinary citizens can take to avoid, mitigate, adapt, or rebuild from climate change disasters. In order to make it attractive and fun to use, we would like to add gamification (points, badges, levels, social feedback, etc). We would like assistance coming up with research on gamification concepts and systems and then a proposed gamification system to suit our application (ex points for doing actions in your house to protect against climate disaster, badges for being prepared for a certain type of disaster).

Your Contribution

We would like you research the various gamification concepts, trends, issues, and solutions that are used in web apps such as FitBit, Facebook, video games, etc...then design a customized gamification system for our prototype website. At the start of the project we will provide a walk-through of our prototype site and content, provide background research on user types and customer personas, high-level gamification analysis, some suggested marketing materials including surveys etc.

Potential considerations for gamifying concept can include, but are not limited to:

• An increase in completed citizen climate actions
• An increase in citizen usage of the in-app action tracking and reporting
• An increase in citizen contribution to community action projects
• An increase in the average time spent per user session
• Identifying which badges, and rewards should be competitive and which should be co-operative
• Identifying if any badges are national, provincial, or local/community
• Identifying which badge levels are available and how the process works
• Identifying which kind of social feedback is available and how the process works