Utilising Competitive and Cooperative Elements within an Immersive Exergame Environment

This report will be comparing and criticising different approaches of incorporating competition and cooperation within an environment to combat a lack of intrinsic motivation. While there have been many studies conducted on the effectiveness of competition and cooperation on motivation and other factors, there is still much debate on which methods are the best. I will be looking at six different research papers around competition/cooperation in both gaming and non-gaming environments. Through this literature review I hope to gain insight on the best way to include competition and/or cooperation into the immersive exercycle game being developed by Shaw et al. [7]