Gamification Group

February 26, 2020 In Open positions By Henrietta Jylhä

Gamification Group is hosting and coaching MSCA-IF candidates with the goal of providing 2-3 year postdoc positions

EU H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Individual Fellowship provides opportunities to researchers of any nationality to acquire and transfer new knowledge and to work on research and innovation in Europe (EU Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries) and beyond. The goal of the Individual...

February 1, 2020 In ReClaim By Mattia Thibault

Jurassic Tampere

In December 2019 the peaceful city of Tampere, Finland, was invaded by hundreds of dinosaurs. Small, brightly coloured rubber toy dinosaurs, to be exact. This was part of Jurassic Tampere an urban toyification activity organised as part of the ReClaim project. Why bringing toys in the...

January 22, 2020 In eSports, News, Streaming By Henrietta Jylhä

Digital athletics in analogue stadiums: Comparing gratifications for engagement between live attendance and online esports spectating

As the new year begins, so do the new leagues and qualifying rounds for the 2020 esports calendar. This year also sees the first live exhibition event held at the ICE gaming expo, with eight teams including NAVI and ENCE competing for a reported prize...

January 20, 2020 In Gamification By Lobna Hassan

“How game features give rise to altruism and collective action? Implications for cultivating cooperation by gamification” receives ISSIP-IBM-CBA-JST-CISCO Student Paper Award for “Best Industry Studies Paper” at HICSS 53

Cooperation and altruistic action are key prosocial behaviors in our society and pivotal for a number of desirable outcomes, such as engagement in charitable work, social support, increased cohesion as well as increased productivity within teams and better organizational performance [11][17][18][27]. It seems therefore evident...

December 2, 2019 In ReClaim By Mattia Thibault

ROOK! Playful data visualization for air quality

Rook is playful data visualization device aiming at the dissemination of air quality data, developed by Gamification Group member Mattia Thibault and Artur Cordeiro, in partnership with Waag, and with the collaboration of Yuri Alexsander, Mar Escarrabill, Luis Rodil Fernandez and Jéssyca Rios (full credits...

November 6, 2019 In CFP, Transhumanism, WEARTUAL By Oğuz 'Oz' Buruk

Call for Abstracts – alt.CHI 2020 | Children in 2077: Designing children’s technologies in the age of transhumanism

Submission Deadline – December 2, 2019 Please fill this notification of interest form if you intend to send an abstract for this submission: https://forms.gle/RibTudXcf3tWSbxF7 With this call, we want to propose an opportunity to human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers from various fields to contribute with a speculative paper...

November 4, 2019 In Augmented Reality, Event, Interaction design, Virtual Reality, Wearables, WEARTUAL By Oğuz 'Oz' Buruk

Design Workshops on Wearables, Games and Extended Reality

Gamification Group is organizing a workshop series on the topics of WEARABLES, BODY and GAMES. In these workshops, we will give a close look to distinct facets of these interdisciplinary topics by bringing together players and professionals from different related disciplines. Our aim is to...

September 16, 2019 In Augmented Reality, Gamification, Publication By Jonna Koivisto

Getting Healthy by Catching Them All: A Study on the Relationship between Player Orientations and Perceived Health Benefits in an Augmented Reality Game

Augmented Reality (AR) refers to the interactive coexistence of computer generated assets within the physical reality [4]. Such coexistence creates a unique opportunity in video games scenery, especially by altering the traditional way of playing video games. One of the earliest examples of the mobile...

September 16, 2019 In Achievements, Awards, News By Jonna Koivisto

Dr. Jonna Koivisto awarded the “Technology Publisher of the Year” by Tampere University

Last week, on the 12th of September 2019, Dr. Jonna Koivisto from the GG team received the “Technology Publisher of the Year” award given out by the Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology at the Tampere University award ceremony. The annual award is...

September 6, 2019 In Event, Gamification, News, Virtumer By Shuo Yang

Call For Participants

We are looking for volunteers ( STUDENTS ONLY) to take part in a study of [shopping experience] As a participant in this study, you would be asked to spend [the gift card in the shop and fill out the computer-based survey]. Your participation is entirely voluntary...