Framework, devices, and methodologies configured to enable gamification via sensor-based monitoring of physically performed skills, including location-specific gamification

A method for providing challenges, including:

• providing an authoring interface that enables an author to define a challenge for participants including the author;
• via the authoring interface, receiving a challenge data set for the challenge, wherein the challenge data set includes:
• (i) data representative of a challenge location;
• (ii) data representative of one or more challenge skills, wherein each of the one or more challenge skills are selected from a repository of challenge skills that are configured to be identified via motion sensor units worn by each of the participants;
• and
• (iii) data representative of one or more competitive parameters for one or more attributes of the one or more challenge skills;
• making the challenge available to the participants, comprising, for each of the participants:
• receiving data representative of a participant location;
• based on the participant location and the challenge location, identifying the challenge among the challenges and providing a participant interface that enables a selection of the challenge;
• via the participant interface, receiving the selection of the challenge;
• and
• providing configuration data for the motion sensor units worn by each participant to enable monitoring performance of the one or more challenge skills performed by each participant;
• receiving performance data from said monitoring the performance of the one or more challenge skills performed by each participant;
• based on the performance data of each participant, rating the participants;
• and
• via the participant interface, reporting the participants' ratings.