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November 7, 2024 In News By Xinyi Yang

Exploring Future Societies Impacted by Digitally Induced Altered States of Consciousness

Authors: Terho Ojell-Järventausta, Anatolii Belousov, Mila Bujić, Joseph Macey and Juho Hamari The DIAL project (DIAL: Futures research into socio-cultural implications of DIgitally induced ALtered states of consciousness) recently launched a workshop series aimed at exploring futures shaped by digitally induced altered states of consciousness (DIAL)....

December 20, 2023 In News By Xinyi Yang

MetaMarketing

Consumer Decision-Making in Multisensory and Multiuser Metaverse Marketing The MetaMarketing project is a three-year Co-Research project by Business Finland, Tampere University, LahiTapiola, TietoEvry Oy, Yleisradio Oy, Dagmar Oy, and Acon Oy. The MetaMarketing team is led by Juho Hamari (PI), Nannan Xi (PI), and Juhani Linna...

August 15, 2023 In Event, News By Corinna Wuellner

Call for Student Volunteers: Academic MindTrek Conference

The 26th International Academic Mindtrek conference will take place in Paidia Living Lab of Play in Tampere, between the 3rd and 6th October 2023. We're thrilled to invite you to embark on a fantastic journey as a Student Volunteer at the upcoming Academic MindTrek conference. The...

March 9, 2023 In News, Open positions By Mattia Thibault

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSTING AND COACHING GAMES AND GAMIFICATION MSCA-PF CANDIDATES

The professors of games and gamification research at Tampere University (TAU) welcome applicants to join and actively co-develop successful applications to the MSCA PF program. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PF) provide funding opportunities for excellent researchers of any nationality and any research field....

October 5, 2022 In Achievements, Awards, News By Narmeen Marji

GG Researchers win first place in the XR + 5G mmW Hackathon in Tampere

Background Information The XR + 5G mmW Hackathon was organized by Ultrahack between 30 September - 2 October 2022 in collaboration with Elisa, Nokia, Qualcomm, CGI, and the city of Tampere. The Challenge The challenge was to develop an application concept for utilizing and visualizing cities’ transportation, environmental,...

April 5, 2022 In News, Open positions By Narmeen Marji

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSTING AND COACHING GAMES AND GAMIFICATION MSCA-PF CANDIDATES

The professors of games and gamification research at Tampere University (TAU) welcome applicants to join and actively co-develop successful applications to the MSCA-PF program. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is one of the funding opportunities that belong to the Horizon Europe framework programme. Postdoctoral Fellowship PF is...

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...

June 22, 2021 In Augmented Reality, News, POSTEMOTION, Virtual Reality, Wearables By Benjamin Puha

Academy of Finland grants funding for POSTEMOTION, a Gamification Group project

Gamification Group is honoured to announce a new Academy of Finland funded project titled “POSTEMOTION: Socio-emotional augmentation of human exodus to virtual reality". The need to move human interaction into virtual spaces has been increasing steadily over the years – largely due to the climate crisis,...

January 9, 2021 In Achievements, Augmented Reality, Gamification, News, Streaming, Virtual Reality By Henrietta Jylhä

Gamification Group in 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Science with collaborations in 6 papers and 4 tracks

The year has started with great news for us! Gamification Group in 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) represents with collaborations in 6 papers and 4 tracks, e.g. in the areas of XR and gamification: Papers: Bujić, M., Xi, N., & Hamari, J. (2021). Emotional...

September 20, 2020 In eSports, News By Henrietta Jylhä

The Esports Research Network (ERN) is here!

Esports, or competitive video gaming, is a major global phenomenon (est. revenue at $1.1bn, audience at 495m) that has developed from the internet cafes of the 90’s into a billion dollar industry that fills some of the largest stadiums in the world; there have even...