Gamification Group

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:...

January 30, 2018 In Augmented Reality, IMMERSIVE, News, Virtual Reality By Mila Bujic

XR Bulletin January 2018

Developing AR applications has very recently become more attractive than it has ever been before. As Apple launched the ARKit (September 19, 2017, with iOS 11) and Google launched ARCore (August 25 2017, first preview), app developers were given the possibility to jump into AR...

December 15, 2017 In Gamification, Open positions By Juho Hamari

Open positions of doctoral student and postdoctoral researcher

Gamification Group opens 1-3 positions on academic career stages of doctoral students and/or postdoctoral researchers at University of Turku, Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere. Apply Gamification Group under Professor Juho Hamari is part of the newly established Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies...

December 12, 2017 In Augmented Reality, IMMERSIVE, News, Virtual Reality By Mila Bujic

XR Bulletin December 2017

As this is our first blog in the XR Bulletin series, it seems appropriate to first shortly introduce the state of virtual reality (VR) to this day. For those of you who are complete beginners, first have a look at this HTC’s post - VR...

December 10, 2017 In eSports, Gambling, News By Joseph Macey

The Convergence of Gaming and Gambling?

In the last few days and weeks the relationship between digital games and gambling has become a topic of interest to mainstream society with both national media and politicians debating the topic 4, 30. This is the latest aspect that has seen increased attention placed on the...