Gamification in information retrieval: State of the art, challenges and opportunities

Gamification aims at applying game design principles and elements, such as points, badges, feedbacks or leader boards in non- gaming environments. An interesting goal of gamification is to combine and exploit the fun factor for targeting other aspects like achieving more accurate work, more cost effective solutions and better retention rates. The application of gamification techniques to IR tasks poses interesting research challenges. In this paper, we propose an analysis of the state of the art in this field and we summarize interesting challenges and oppor- tunities for the near future.