Skillbridge: uma proposta de ferramenta gamificada para auxiliar no processo de mentoria

Abstract

The mentoring process can be aporached on many ways, having as its core a menthor of- fering their experience to the mentee. Studys point out that this process can surface features, such as creativity, and ease the learning process on students that are part of classes with a huge number of people. In the existent applications, we can see that generally there is a specific tar- get scope, being it a group ou people or an area of study. There is also niche where the mentee can hire the mentoring service, being it as a subscription or hiring a single session. A tool that approaches the process without being attached to a specific organization or without the needing to hire someone was not found. The present work aims to make available a platform that makes possible the connection of menthors and mentees, allowing the track of the process and management of achievements obtained by mentoring process. Through works studied, results were found that the usage of gamification concepts aid on incentive to cooperation. Thus, these concepts will be added to the system on the form of goal management, that will be added by the menthor to their mentees, and by sharing achievements that the mentoring process made possible. Therefore, the goal is creating a community amongst the participants of the mentoring process. To put into practice the research findings and understand what the potential users thinks about the current proposal, an interactive prototype was created, based on a small scope of the requirements. The prototype was evaluated by 18 people, scoring averagely 89.38% in the System Usability Scale (SUS). This shows that the prototype has an acceptable experience, being possible to evolve to a final product that approaches the goals of the present work.