Click here to access the permanent Tampere University repository for the report. Download the report directly here: Esports Project Report During the past five years, the activity of watching others play competitive video games has seen a tremendous amount of growth. According to popular estimates, esports has...
Are you a designer/developer/professional/researcher or a person working on topics related to game design and development, fashion design, interaction design, cosplay, psychophysiology and other related areas to wearables, body, and games? Join us for our interdisciplinary workshop series. Gamification Group is organizing a workshop series on...
Intrinsic motivation is commonly considered as the most productive force behind people’s behavior [10][34]. However, it is often observed that people lack intrinsic motivation towards different activities they would like to undertake. Thus, many companies, educational institutions and workplaces are competing for these people’s motivational...
ReClaim has a rather active Facebook page, used for sharing information about the project, but also news, calls for papers and interesting reading dealing with urban play and gamification!...
A new paper for ReClaim is out, published in the Proceedings of HICSS 2019: “Towards a Typology of Urban Gamification”. The paper is open access and you can find the article in the Publications section! Play has always had its place in the city. From simple games...
Interface, the magazine of Tampere University of Technology (which has now merged in Tampere University), dedicated an article to two Marie Curie Individual Fellows who have recently joined the University. One of them is Mattia Thibault, the PI of ReClaim. You can read the brief interview...
The first paper from ReClaim, “Re-interpreting cities with play. Urban semiotics and gamification” has just been published! The paper expands the presentation held the 24 October 2018 at the Playable Cities Workshop during the ArtsIT Conference in Braga, Portugal and its contained in the refereed post-conference...
Many of the systems, services or mobile apps we use nowadays can be thought of as motivational. Consider an exercise app like Fitocracy or a language learning app like Duolingo. The apps use features like collecting points, earning badges, performance tracking, competition, connecting with friends...
Image Source During the past decade, advances in modern information and communication technologies have enabled novel forms of economic coordination of under-utilized resources be it human capital, information goods, material goods, or even funding. Perhaps the most noteworthy Internet-based developments that have made resource coordination more...
Image Source: https://www.stockvault.net/photo/176769/businessman-drawing-social-network-on-virtual-screen The increasing ubiquitous interconnectedness based on recent technological developments, such as the Internet and smartphones, has enabled new modes of economic coordination and management to become feasible, such as crowdsourcing [1] and sharing economies [3][9]. Although in the past, organizations commonly created value...