Building Better Digital Badges: Pairing Completion Logic With Psychological Factors
This article analyzes digital badges through mechanics and psychology. This approach involves understanding the underlying logics of badges as well as the experiential nature of badges-in-use. The proposed model provides additional insight about badges and recommends design strategies to complement existing scholarship. Procedure. This article examines an existing model of completion logic for digital badges. This model is expanded upon by pairing these formal mechanics with relevant psychological theory, summarizing key principles that pertain to how people interact with badges. It then considers three dimensions of badges in use—social, cognitive, and affective—reviewing examples and analyzing the relationship of badging to debriefing.
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The article offers an insightful analysis by combining the structural logic of digital badges with psychological factors that influence motivation and learning. By considering social, cognitive, and affective dimensions, Eggy Car it shows how badges can move beyond simple completion markers to become meaningful tools for engagement and reflection.