GamiCAD: a gamified tutorial system for first time autocad users

  • Authors:
  • Wei Li;Tovi Grossman;George Fitzmaurice

  • Affiliations:
  • Autodesk Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;Autodesk Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;Autodesk Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present GamiCAD, a gamified in-product, interactive tutorial system for first time AutoCAD users. We introduce a software event driven finite state machine to model a user's progress through a tutorial, which allows the system to provide real-time feedback and recognize success and failures. GamiCAD provides extensive real-time visual and audio feedback that has not been explored before in the context of software tutorials. We perform an empirical evaluation of GamiCAD, comparing it to an equivalent in-product tutorial system without the gamified components. In an evaluation, users using the gamified system reported higher subjective engagement levels and performed a set of testing tasks faster with a higher completion ratio.