March 9, 2021 In Open positions By Henrietta Jylhä

Gamification Group is hosting and coaching MSCA-PF candidates with the goal of providing 2+ year postdoc positions

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF), previously known as Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF), provides funding opportunities for excellent researchers of any nationality and any research field. The European scholarships referring to a European host organization, provide funding opportunities for researchers in different situations of their career. MSCA-PF...

January 9, 2021 In Achievements, Augmented Reality, Gamification, News, Streaming, Virtual Reality By Henrietta Jylhä

Gamification Group in 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Science with collaborations in 6 papers and 4 tracks

The year has started with great news for us! Gamification Group in 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) represents with collaborations in 6 papers and 4 tracks, e.g. in the areas of XR and gamification: Papers: Bujić, M., Xi, N., & Hamari, J. (2021). Emotional...

January 7, 2021 In eSports, Gamification, Open positions, Virtual Reality By Henrietta Jylhä

Postdoctoral Researcher / Researcher / Doctoral Researcher (gamification / VR, AR, MR / esports), 2-4 positions

Gamification Group (GG) at Faculty of information Technology and Communication Science, Tampere University (headed by Prof. Hamari) is internationally revered for seminal academic and societal contributions in the areas of novel technologies such as motivational information systems (e.g. gamification, game-based learning, quantified-self, persuasive technologies), internet...

December 21, 2020 In Open positions, Virtual Reality By Henrietta Jylhä

Gamification/VR in Bioinformatics – Early Stage Researcher – ESR, Doctoral Studentships in the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovation Training Network, 1 position

Gamification Group (GG) at Faculty of information Technology and Communication Science, Tampere University (headed by Prof. Hamari) is internationally revered for seminal academic and societal contributions in the areas of novel technologies such as motivational information systems (e.g. gamification, game-based learning, quantified-self, persuasive technologies), internet...

October 28, 2020 In Gamification By Henrietta Jylhä

Archetypes of Gamification: Analysis of mHealth Apps

Following the proliferation of smartphones and other smart devices into people’s everyday lives during the last decade, mobile application stores provide users with a plethora of different health-related mobile applications (mHealth apps). In such mHealth apps, gamification presents itself as a promising approach to increase...

September 20, 2020 In eSports, News By Henrietta Jylhä

The Esports Research Network (ERN) is here!

Esports, or competitive video gaming, is a major global phenomenon (est. revenue at $1.1bn, audience at 495m) that has developed from the internet cafes of the 90’s into a billion dollar industry that fills some of the largest stadiums in the world; there have even...