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More and more learning apps like Duolingo are using some form of gamification(e.g., badges, points, and leaderboards) to enhance user learning. However,they are not always successful. Gamification misuse is a phenomenon that occurswhen users become too fixated on gamification and get distracted from learning.This undesirable phenomenon wastes users' precious time and negatively impactstheir learning performance. However, there has been little research in theliterature to understand gamification misuse and inform future gamificationdesigns. Therefore, this paper aims to fill this knowledge gap by conductingthe first extensive qualitative research on gamification misuse in a popularlearning app called Duolingo. Duolingo is currently the world's most downloadedlearning app used to learn languages. This study consists of two phases: (I) acontent analysis of data from Duolingo forums (from the past nine years) and(II) semi-structured interviews with 15 international Duolingo users. Ourresearch contributes to the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Learning atScale (L@S) research communities in three ways: (1) elaborating theramifications of gamification misuse on user learning, well-being, and ethics,(2) identifying the most common reasons for gamification misuse (e.g.,competitiveness, overindulgence in playfulness, and herding), and (3) providingdesigners with practical suggestions to prevent (or mitigate) the occurrence ofgamification misuse in their future designs of gamified learning apps.

When Gamification Spoils Your Learning: A Qualitative Case Study of Gamification Misuse in a Language-Learning App