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During the conference we took advantage of having access to so many brilliant minds and asked them to summarize the research they were presenting and their thoughts on gamification. The following articles, many with video accompaniment, have been published on the CommerceLab.ca site, an initiative to bring together researchers and business to further opportunities and innovation in Canada in the areas of Gamification, UX and Interactive Display (read about CommerceLab).

It’s the classic cry of parents trying to pry gaming consoles from the hands of kids everywhere: ‘Stop playing so many video games. You’ll never find a job some day if you waste all your time on that.’

Whether it’s a learning module or a user engaging with a system, the authoritarian process of trying to shape and influence the user’s path with a definitive goal has its limits, says Stephen P.  Anderson, keynote speaker at Gamification 2013.