A Methodology for Gamifying Smart Cities: Navigating Human Behavior and Attitude

We are now living in smart cities, where information technologies enhance our everyday life. For example, our energy management and traffic management have become smarter, making our daily lives more convenient and efficient. However, from a citizen’s point of view, a person’s happiness needs to be more important than achieving efficient and convenient smart city infrastructures. This is, in particular, an essential issue for achieving human-centered smart city design. In this paper, we present our methodology to gamify smart city services. Our methodology consists of three tools, one model and two infrastructures. The tools contain the

value-based design framework

, the

personality-based analysis framework

, and the

reality-based analysis framework

. The model is named the

GamiMedia

model, and the infrastructures include the

Virtual Form

infrastructure and the

Digital-Physical Hybrid Role-Playing

infrastructure. The methodology to gamify smart city services is extracted from our long experiences with building applications services and middleware infrastructures for ubiquitous computing environments.