Gamification Group

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...

August 31, 2018 In Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

Gamification, quantified-self or social networking? Matching users’ goals with motivational technology

Image Source: http://www.gamification.it/tag/componenti/ Many of the systems and services we now employ in our daily life are being designed using motivational designs. Motivational designs are designs that aim to help users reach their goals via motivational enforcement. They encourage users, show them their achievement as well as nudge...

August 31, 2018 In eSports, Publication, Streaming By Max Sjöblom

How do people use social media at live esports events?

(heading image courtesy of Juha Immonen & Assembly) Esports has been a quickly growing phenomena during the last 3-5 years, attracting an increasing number of viewers, players, teams and businesses interested in getting a slice of the pie. While one would assume that the majority of...

July 18, 2018 In eSports, Gambling, Publication By Joseph Macey

The who, the what, and the how of video game-related gambling.

Gambling connected to esports and video games is big business, with current estimates valuing the market at several billion $US a year. Until now there has been little evidence, beyond anecdote, as to who participates in these new forms of gambling and how they play....

June 15, 2018 In Gamification, Publication By GG

Design gamification — A method for engineering gamified software

Image source: https://www.pulselearning.com/blog/gamification-is-all-the-rage/ Since its inception around 2010, gamification has become one of the top technology and software trends. However, gamification has also been regarded as one of the most challenging areas of software engineering. Beyond traditional software design requirements, designing gamification requires the command of disciplines...

March 14, 2018 In CFP, Gamification By GG

CFP: Gamification @ 52ND ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS 2019)

Part of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science” - track 52nd annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS January 8-11, 2019 | Grand Waile, Maui Important dates: June 15: Submissions deadline August 17: Notification sent to authors September 4: Revision deadline September 10: Final acceptance notifications sent to authors September 22: Deadline for authors to...

March 6, 2018 In Open positions By GG

Gamification Group is hosting and coaching MSCA-IF candidates with the goal of providing 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...

January 30, 2018 In CFP, Event, Gamification By GG

GamiFIN 2018 Call for Papers is open!

Gamification Group is pleased to inform that the 2nd international GamiFIN conference will take place in 2018 in Pori, Finland! The first GamiFIN conference in 2017 brought together scholars and practitioners on various fields related to gamification. The proceedings of GamiFIN 2017 are available online:...