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Email: juho.hamari@tuni.fi
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Dr. Juho Hamari is a Professor of Gamification at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communications, Tampere University. He leads the Gamification Group and the Research Centre of Gameful Realities.
Dr. Hamari’s group is focused on multidisciplinary and multimethodological research on gamification research holistically, including gamification, game-based learning, motivational systems, and extended realities (VR, AR, XR), situated in domains striving for ecological, economical, and social sustainability. The research of the group is trans-disciplinary in nature, spanning from arts and humanities all the way to electrical engineering, but primarily positioned in human-computer-interaction, media studies, information systems science, applied psychology, and education. The methodological range is equally vast spanning from speculative design, art and design research through inductive qualitative research to confirmatory quantitative research and field and laboratory experiments.
As a leader in gamification and extended realities at Tampere University, Dr. Hamari has directed major projects under the premiere national-level funding instruments; Research Council of Finland (RCF) Strategic Research Profiling areas “Games as a platform to tackle grand challenges” appointed to his research community at Tampere University, RCF Flagship and RCF Center of Excellence among other externally funded projects for approximately 25M€ in volume.
In addition to research leadership, Dr. Hamari has been supervising over 25 postdoctoral researchers and (co-)supervising 45 doctoral students.
Dr. Hamari’s has published over 320 internationally peer-reviewed research articles and has accumulated over 50 000 citatuins. According to Stanford/Elsevier bibliometric analysis, Dr. Hamari currently ranks #1 in academic impact in Finland and according to the Web of Science, he is among the top0.1% of researchers internationally in impact.