Enhancing collaborative search systems engagement through gamification

Abstract

Collaborative search systems require to make sense of the information to achieve shared goals and reduce additional costs. These systems include cognitive load and the cost to coordinate various events and participants. By applying game mechanics and dynamics to these collaborative systems we can intensify seeker engagement with this type of applications and its collaborative tasks. To the best of our knowledge the use of game design elements in non-gaming contexts has been so far discussed in a few research contexts, without ties to existing literature on Collaborative Information Seeking. This paper presents a set of elements to gamify collaborative search systems.