Gamification Group | 2021 December

December 20, 2021 In Gamification, Publication By Henrietta Jylhä

From rideshare e-scooters to wandering: Deploying gamification to explore urban mobility

Rideshare e-scooters, along with other various types of personal mobility devices, have rapidly become a common sight in many cities. They weave among pedestrians and traffic, allowing for a seemingly carefree and convenient way to move in the urban environment. They lay at the side...

December 13, 2021 In CFP, News, ReClaim By Mattia Thibault

Call for Papers – Speculative Semiotics

Guest Editor: Mattia Thibault, Gamification Group, Tampere University. FULL CFP: https://bit.ly/SpeculativeSemioticsCFP This special issue of Linguistic Frontiers aims to explore the possible and impossible futures for communication technologies or, in other words, a Speculative Semiotics. Projects of nuclear semiotics (Sebeok 1985), focusing on how to communicate across...

December 9, 2021 In Gamification, Publication By Henrietta Jylhä

How are user types associated with preference and perceived sense of accomplishment for gamification designs?

In the last decade, gamification has been used to engage users in different types of systems, however, it also can bring negative outcomes. These negative outcomes are in part because people have different characteristics and preferences that would influence their behavior during the usage of...