Gamification Group | 2018 September

September 28, 2018 In Education, Gamification By Lobna Hassan

ENTER HOGWARTS: LESSONS ON HOW TO GAMIFY EDUCATION FROM THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER

The first time we entered Hogwarts; the world-class School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was in 1997, in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling. The first scenes of Hogwarts are of Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore, introducing the new school comers to how...

September 20, 2018 In Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

Badges increase user activity – A field experiment on the effects of gamification

Image Source:http://www.howdesign.com/resources-education/gamifying-your-website/ During recent years, the boundary between games and other systems and services has become increasingly blurred. This development can be seen to be bi-directional: On one hand, within games, users are increasingly subjected to decision making situations pertaining to outside-game concerns (especially with the...

September 14, 2018 In eSports, Publication, Streaming By Shuo Yang

Social motivations of live-streaming viewer engagement on Twitch

Image Source: https://screenrant.com/twitch-streaming-service-down-outage/ Live-streaming is an interactive form of internet-based multi- media entertainment that has grown rapidly in popularity world- wide since 2011. Live-streaming has become so popular that, in some cases, there are more people watching others do activities, such as play computer games, than doing...

September 11, 2018 In eSports, News By Max Sjöblom

The phenomena of esports, Yle Radio 1 show (in Finnish)

What is this whole esports phenomena about, how many people play & watch these games, and what about these huge sums of money that are starting to be part of the esports industry? To answer some of these questions, Max Sjöblom from the Gamification Group...

September 5, 2018 In Gamification, Open positions By Juho Hamari

Open positions: Salaried DOCTORAL student, Deadline 9.9!

Gamification Group is seeking doctoral students from diverse backgrounds as part of the general call for doctoral students of the Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Tampere University of Technology (14 positions in total). Apply Gamification Group under Professor Juho Hamari is the largest Game research...