RA-Concierge: Gamification for Enhancing Research Activities

Abstract

There is a variety of research activities carried out every day in a research laboratory, including investigations, seminars, experiments, analysis, and writing papers, but all of this activity is steady, methodical work that does not produce immediate, visible results. For this reason, a mechanism to maintain motivation when research is not going as expected, or to help students get on track with research when they have just been assigned to a laboratory could be useful. In this research, we have proposed and prototyped the “RA-Concierge” which introduces a comprehensive gamification for general research activity.