The Future of Motivation weekly report w. 48

This week we wrapped our project up taking some final decisions on how to shape our You-Topia concept and consequently our design, article and presentation. In order to be more effective and give more continuity and consistence we split the group in two sub-groups:
- Kristina, Natalia and Alexandra are taking care of the final presentation, video concept and design for the definitive user interface
- Mikael and Matteo are putting together the article.

This week has been essential for narrowing the scope of our project and taking final decisions on how to conceptualise it. Among the offload trends that we proposed there is the prominence in the future of getting a certificate as “social contributor” or “social innovator”, hence the acknowledgement of an active social collaboration will have a strong prominence on one’s profile.
This forecast is intrinsically democratic and egalitarian: the fulfilment of the individual has the same importance of the fulfilment of one’s collaborative role into a better society.
There will be opportunity for everyone to help with their mind or their hands and be rewarded.
We need to agree on which kind of certification could You-Topia release step by step according to one's achievements in the game.

We went deeper into gamification and motivation theory giving a better grounding to our hypothesis and justifying some assumptions we have done for You-Topia. For this task the interview with Björn Hedin has been particularly insightful and provided us with some concrete examples that brought us to a better understanding of game and challenge dynamics.

We set an internal group deadline for our article on Wednesday 3rd so it is our absolute priority to finish the text and suggest some final corrections if needed.

In the meanwhile we started thinking at the video concept and we are planning to create an interactive video story where the user will chose between an action and the other to continue to the next step of the plot. There will be a right and a wrong choice showing the consequences and the interaction with You-Topia. Designing how to convey a good story will be our main task for the next week in which we will have a full group lunch meeting to discuss about the storyboard.