Exploring Gamification in Extreme Sports

Exploring Gamification in Extreme Sports

Van der Horst, M.B.

Hultink, H.J. (mentor)
Beekman, A.Q. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Product Innovation Management

Master of Science Strategic Product Design

2016-03-31

This master thesis sets out to develop a product / service designed for the most valuable metric (across multiple action sports) and to present a gamified experience of this metric to the user. The thesis presents a roadmap stating what (action) sports should be targeted: kiteboarding, wakeboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding. The metric of ‘park objects’ was selected as metric that was deemed most promising across all five core-board-sports. The metric of ‘park objects’ essentially entails who went over what Park Object at what time. Here, BLE Beacons are very promising. The thesis recommends to place BLE Beacons onto Park Objects, through which multiple core-board-sports can be targeted. The product-service system designed in this master thesis holds a design for the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) of applying BLE Beacons onto Park Objects. The MVP-case being to place BLE Beacons onto Park Jumps (with ‘standard’ dimensions) in wakeparks for wakeboarding.

Strategic Design
Gamification
Action Sports
BLE Beacons
Wakeboarding

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