March 14, 2018 In CFP, Gamification By GG

CFP: Gamification @ 52ND ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS 2019)

Part of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science” – track

52nd annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS
January 8-11, 2019 | Grand Waile, Maui

 

 

Important dates:

 June 15:
Submissions deadline
August 17:
Notification sent to authors
September 4:
Revision deadline
September 10:
Final acceptance notifications sent to authors
September 22:
Deadline for authors to submit the final manuscript (camera ready)
October 1:
Registration deadline
January 8-11:
Conference
February 15, 2019 (date subject to change)
(Optional) Submission deadline for extended versions of selected papers for Gamification special issue in the Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

 

 

During the last decade, games have become an established vein of entertainment, consumer culture, and essentially, a common part of people’s daily lives (36). In the United States alone 59% of the population plays computer games while revenues of the computer games industry exceed US $15 billion (4). However, in addition to the increased penetration of games, the ways in which people play and employ games have also become more varied. There are more different kinds of games available for a multitude of different platforms, mediated through different technologies that cater for differing gaming needs (15,20,24,41) for widening audiences (8,9,10,26,36,40) and which use a wide variety of business models (1,2,13,14,25,27,28,29).

Following these developments, our reality and lives are increasingly game-like, not only because video games have become a pervasive part of our lives, but perhaps most prominently because activities, systems and services that are not traditionally perceived as game-like are increasingly gamified. Gamification refers to designing products, services and organizational practices to afford similar experiences to games, and consequently, to attempt to create value and affect people’s behaviour. (3,16,21,30,39). In recent years, the popularity of gamification has skyrocketed and is manifested in growing numbers of gamified applications, as well as a rapidly increasing amount of research. (See e.g. 17,18,33).

Beyond intentional gamification, gamification also refers to the general ludic transformation of our reality, culture and everyday lives (35,39). For example, recently we have witnessed the popular emergence of augmented reality games (32) and virtual reality technologies that enable a more seamless integration of games into our physical reality. The media ecosystem has also experienced a degree of ludic transformation, with user generated content becoming an important competitor for large media corporations. This transformation has led to the development of several emerging phenomena such as streaming (37) and esports (19,38), that have penetrated the cultural membrane allowing games to seep into domains hitherto dominated by traditional media.

We encourage a wide range of submissions: empirical and conceptual research papers, case studies, and reviews in addition to practitioner reports related to gamification, games, information systems, commerce and users/players as well as the area between them.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited to be submitted to a Gamification special issue in the Electronic Commerce Research and Applications journal.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Users: e.g. Engagement, experience, motivations, user/player types
  • Education: e.g. Serious games, game-based learning, simulation games
  • Media: e.g. eSports, streaming
  • Commerce: e.g. Business models, free-to-play, gamification as marketing, adoption
  • Work: e.g. Organizational gamification, gameful work, gamification in leadership
  • Technology: e.g. VR, AR, MR, Internet of Things
  • Toys & playfulness: e.g. Toys, playfulness, Internet of Toys
  • Health: e.g. Quantified self, games for health, health benefits
  • Theories/concepts/methods: Contributions to science around gamification

Track Chairs

Juho Hamari (Primary Contact)
University of Turku / Tampere University of Technology
Email: juho.hamari@tut.fi

Jonna Koivisto
Tampere University of Technology
Email: jonna.koivisto@tut.fi

Petri Parvinen
University of Helsinki
Email: petri.parvinen@helsinki.fi

 

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