{"id":18247,"date":"2015-10-22T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3517570"},"modified":"2015-10-22T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T21:30:00","slug":"gamification-and-the-internet-of-things-thingsexpo-iot-api-microservices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gamification-and-the-internet-of-things-thingsexpo-iot-api-microservices\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification and the Internet of Things | @ThingsExpo #IoT #API #Microservices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people haven\u2019t heard the word, \u201cgamification,\u201d even though they probably, and perhaps unwittingly, participate in it every day.<br \/>\nGamification is \u201cthe process of adding games or game-like elements to something (as a task) so as to encourage participation.\u201d Further, gamification is about bringing game mechanics \u2013 rules, constructs, processes, and methods \u2013 into the real world in an effort to engage people.<br \/>\nIn his session at @ThingsExpo, Robert Endo, owner and engagement manager of Intrepid Data, will discuss how wearables, analytics, and geospatial technologies can be combined to transform the world into the ultimate game board. Organizations can grasp consumer, employee, or client intrinsic interest by setting up cool, collaborative, and rewarding systems using the IoT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3517570\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people haven&rsquo;t heard the word, &ldquo;gamification,&rdquo; even though they probably, and perhaps unwittingly, participate in it every day.<br \/>\nGamification is &ldquo;the process of adding games or game-like elements to something (as a task) so as to encourage participation.&rdquo; Further, gamification is about bringing game mechanics &ndash; rules, constructs, processes, and methods &ndash; into the real world in an effort to engage people.<br \/>\nIn his session at @ThingsExpo, Robert Endo, owner and engagement manager of Intrepid Data, will discuss how wearables, analytics, and geospatial technologies can be combined to transform the world into the ultimate game board. Organizations can grasp consumer, employee, or client intrinsic interest by setting up cool, collaborative, and rewarding systems using the IoT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3517570\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18248,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions\/18248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}