The Effect of Gamification in Sport Applications

The effect of gamification in sport applications on the people's sporting habits and performance. Due to the counting number of sensors built into everyday used devices, such as smartphones and wearable technologies opened the possibility to a broader user group to track and analyze their own performance with sport tracking applications in a gamified system, to keep the users motivated. The aim of the research to measure the effect of the different game design elements, based on the responses of 21 statements. The results show that it is the least influencing factor while choosing the application. On the other hand, progression related game elements showed the most positive impact on the workout regularity and intensity.