Gamification Group

April 5, 2022 In Open positions By Narmeen Marji

Project Manager (Games as a Platform to Tackle Grand Challenges, PROFI6)

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences create a unique environment for multidisciplinary, inspirational, and high-impact research and education. We are a community of 35,000 people and Finland’s second largest multidisciplinary higher-education institution. Our competitive edges are in technology, health, and society. Read more. The profiling...

April 5, 2022 In Open positions By Narmeen Marji

Doctoral Researcher, 14 positions, Faculty of Information Technology and Communications Sciences

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences create a unique environment for multidisciplinary, inspirational and high-impact research and education. Our higher education community has competitive edges in technology, health and society. Read more. The Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences invites applications for 14...

March 14, 2022 In CFP, Event, Gamification By Henrietta Jylhä

Call for Papers: Gamification at the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Gamification refers to a “process of transforming any activity, system, service, product or organizational structure into one which affords positive experiences, skills and practices similar to those afforded by games, and is often referred to as the gameful experience. This is commonly but optionally done...

March 8, 2022 In Open positions By Henrietta Jylhä

Doctoral Researcher (Ethical and sustainable technologies, services and organizational practices (in gamification)), 2 positions

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences create a unique environment for multidisciplinary, inspirational and high-impact research and education. Our universities community as its competitive edges in technology, health and society https://www.tuni.fi/en Are you interested in the ethical ramifications of where novel information technologies are...

March 3, 2022 In Gamification, Publication By Nevena Sievic

Is there any relationship between users’ behavior data and their experience while using a gamified system?

The question presented in the title of this post was investigated in a study produced by researchers from Tampere University (Finland) and University of São Paulo (Brazil). After a series of participants use a gamified educational system called Eagle-edu, where their behavior data were collected,...

February 21, 2022 In Gamification, Publication By Nevena Sievic

Is it possible to predict users’ flow experience based on their behavior data?

Especially in recent years, the number of people using information systems has increased considerably. This has opened up many opportunities for companies to use users’ behavior data to analyze their experience with products, designs, and other interactivity. Giant companies around the world are also increasingly...

December 20, 2021 In Gamification, Publication By Henrietta Jylhä

From rideshare e-scooters to wandering: Deploying gamification to explore urban mobility

Rideshare e-scooters, along with other various types of personal mobility devices, have rapidly become a common sight in many cities. They weave among pedestrians and traffic, allowing for a seemingly carefree and convenient way to move in the urban environment. They lay at the side...

December 13, 2021 In CFP, News, ReClaim By Mattia Thibault

Call for Papers – Speculative Semiotics

Guest Editor: Mattia Thibault, Gamification Group, Tampere University. FULL CFP: https://bit.ly/SpeculativeSemioticsCFP This special issue of Linguistic Frontiers aims to explore the possible and impossible futures for communication technologies or, in other words, a Speculative Semiotics. Projects of nuclear semiotics (Sebeok 1985), focusing on how to communicate across...

December 9, 2021 In Gamification, Publication By Henrietta Jylhä

How are user types associated with preference and perceived sense of accomplishment for gamification designs?

In the last decade, gamification has been used to engage users in different types of systems, however, it also can bring negative outcomes. These negative outcomes are in part because people have different characteristics and preferences that would influence their behavior during the usage of...

November 29, 2021 In Gamification, Publication By Henrietta Jylhä

Badges and other gamification elements as indicators of trustworthiness: Investigation of crowdsourcing campaigns

Several marketplaces employ different markers, symbols and indicators for vendor trustworthiness, such as star-ratings based on customer feedback, indicators of tenure of the vendor on the platform or other quality certifications accredited by external evaluators. A new surprising entry to the palette of indicators available...