[arg_discuss] Competitions with prizes and ARGs

[Moseley, A.]

Thanks Christy and Adrian.

The full survey is temporarily here (so address not good for citing) in case anyone's interested:

http://www.le.ac.uk/arts/am14/research/graphs.html

...and I'm writing the results up as part of a paper on engagement to be presented at the Assoc for Learning Tecnology conference (ALT-C) in September, but I'll post a link to the paper here in May time when it's finished. The results which surprised me most were the relatively 'unconnected' nature of the players (ie. spend relatively little time texting/IM/social networks prior to/other than PXC).

Cheers,
Alex.
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Alex Moseley, Principal Computer Officer,
Faculty of Arts, University of Leicester.
Tel: 0116 252 5317 | Email: am14 at le.ac.uk



>

> Excellent Alex! Thankyou for sharing this.

>

> Please email me if you have any of this in a report or essay

> as I'd love to

> read and cite it (I'll cite your post if not).

>

> Regards,

> Christy

>

> Thanks for doing this research Alex, it's fascinating. We'd performed

> our own surveys at Mind Candy, but it's interesting to see these

> figures. I had always suspected that the puzzles, then the story,

> would be at the top; and that the prize was not a strong incentive to

> keep playing.

>

> Adrian