Safe Driving Mobile Application using Gamification

Abstract

Gamification has gained significant attention in the last decade, since nowadays developments and modern applications need to motivate and engage users. Gamification is the attempt to build systems and applications by adding game like elements and game principles. The concept of gamification has become very popular in educational contexts, since many applications and systems have been designed and developed in the educational area where supporting and retaining engagement is of great importance. The proposed mobile application is a game that tries to educate the user in safe driving concepts. Educating people on good driving practices is a necessity since, despite we drive safer cars on safer roads, the number of accidents and fatalities is still high. The application implements the most significant scenarios of road traffic accidents according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority and provides rewards to users who follow and apply good safe driving practices. The application is realized as a game of emergence where a small number of safe driving rules are combined and produce large number of variation while the content generation is implemented according to procedural content generation technique.