Title:	MOTIVATIVE COMPUTING: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN FRAMEWORK
Author(s):	Deborah A. Gears, Carla Lorek, Keli DiRisio, Alexander Goldberger
ISBN:	978-989-8533-50-0
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell
Year:	2016
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Systems, collaboration, psychology, motivation, games, interaction.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	99
Last Page:	106
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Competition for funded research continues to tighten around the globe with awards granted to higher impact projects. While sharing of ideas generally occurs in pockets, it becomes crucially necessary to advance collaborative engagement among researchers. At a growing research university, interdisciplinary methods were applied to gain deep understanding of the scholar’s world and to develop an engaging platform for collaboration. User-centered design, systems analysis and design, object-oriented analysis and design, and psychology theory facilitated a multidimensional view of the problem domain. A critical finding revealed that faculty did not know about the skills, knowledge, and interests of others across campus. Curiosity, honor, and idealism were found to intrinsically motivate researchers that provided an empirical basis for creative design. Analysis findings, along with aesthetic and game elements, informed a solution designed to energize and direct self-determined participation—elements missing in classic systems development processes. Scholar Trading Cards™—the locus of purposeful and serendipitous interaction—mobilized researcher acumen in digital and non-digital spaces. Digital card data published on the university Intranet allowed for searching and sharing of information useful to collaborators, administrators, and staff. Paper-based cards facilitated face-to-face interactions. The platform is showing promise in bridging interpersonal gaps to improve the flow of scholar information across campus. We introduce a contemporary systems framework and information platform that is demonstrating a positive effect on campus-wide collaboration.
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