Alberto Mora
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Gamification Elements
Alberto was a Ph.D. student at the Open University Of Catalonia, Spain, under the supervision of Dr. Joan Arnedo and Dr. Carina González, and a visiting researcher at the HCI Games Group. He holds a M.Sc in education and teacher training from the University of La Rioja and he is a computer engineer from the University of La Laguna. His main interests include gamification design in the field of learning environments, healthcare, and wellness. His thesis is titled "A framework for agile design of gamification services". Before starting his academic career, he has worked for several years as a software developer and IT consultant/manager, as well as a high school and vocational degree instructor.
Projects
Publications
Year 2019
Empirical Validation of the Gamification User Types Hexad Scale in English and Spanish
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Alberto Mora, Andrzej Marczewski, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. Empirical Validation of the Gamification User Types Hexad Scale in English and Spanish. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 127: 95-111. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.10.002
The quest for a better tailoring of gameful design: An analysis of player type preferences
Alberto Mora, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Laura Calvet, Carina González, Joan Arnedo-Moreno, and Lennart Nacke. 2019. The quest for a better tailoring of gameful design: An analysis of player type preferences. In Proceedings of the XX International Conference on Human Computer Interaction - Interacción '19. ACM. doi:10.1145/3335595.3335625
Year 2018
Effect of personalized gameful design on student engagement
Alberto Mora, Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Lennart Nacke, and Joan Arnedo-Moreno. 2018. Effect of personalized gameful design on student engagement. In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference - EDUCON 2018. Tenerife, Spain. IEEE.
Year 2017
Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, Alberto Mora, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Elements of Gameful Design Emerging from User Preferences. In Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '17. Amsterdam, Netherlands. ACM, 129-142. doi:10.1145/3116595.3116627
Foreword: 1st Workshop on Gamification and Games for Learning
Joan Arnedo-Moreno, González González , Carina Soledad, Alberto Mora, and Lennart Nacke. 2017. Foreword: 1st Workshop on Gamification and Games for Learning. Online: https://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4766