Gamification Group

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:...

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...