Monthly Archives: June 2012

Gamification

‘Gamification’ research has done an excellent job of highlighting the potential to make surveys more appealing. Techniques identified can clearly be used to engage people in such a way that they answer more questions, spend more time considering answers, and give more information. It doesn’t feel, however, that all of the gamification techniques have yet been refined sufficiently to also result in the collection unbiased and actionable data.

For a sustainable London, we need a new story from the Mayor

Economic commentary is riddled with metaphor. A few years ago the talk was of ‘rising tides of prosperity’; these days we are battling through a seemingly endless ‘economic storm’.

Metaphors are dangerous things, of course: push one too far and you can be left seeming, or feeling, vaguely ridiculous.