Gamification Group

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...

March 13, 2020 In News By Henrietta Jylhä

Update on GamiFIN 2020 in relation to the coronavirus – GamiFIN 2020 conference will be held as an online conference

Dear GamiFIN Participants, As we all are aware, the international situation regarding COVID-19 has progressed very rapidly, and continues to create significant uncertainty for the coming days as we approach the planned conference dates. The situation has made international travel very difficult, even impossible, for most...

January 22, 2020 In eSports, News, Streaming By Henrietta Jylhä

Digital athletics in analogue stadiums: Comparing gratifications for engagement between live attendance and online esports spectating

As the new year begins, so do the new leagues and qualifying rounds for the 2020 esports calendar. This year also sees the first live exhibition event held at the ICE gaming expo, with eight teams including NAVI and ENCE competing for a reported prize...

September 16, 2019 In Achievements, Awards, News By Jonna Koivisto

Dr. Jonna Koivisto awarded the “Technology Publisher of the Year” by Tampere University

Last week, on the 12th of September 2019, Dr. Jonna Koivisto from the GG team received the “Technology Publisher of the Year” award given out by the Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology at the Tampere University award ceremony. The annual award is...

September 6, 2019 In Event, Gamification, News, Virtumer By Shuo Yang

Call For Participants

We are looking for volunteers ( STUDENTS ONLY) to take part in a study of [shopping experience] As a participant in this study, you would be asked to spend [the gift card in the shop and fill out the computer-based survey]. Your participation is entirely voluntary...

August 1, 2019 In eSports, Gambling, News By Joseph Macey

What About VGO?: The Ongoing Debate Around Loot Boxes and Virtual Item Gambling

Discussions about the potential for loot boxes to be considered as a form of gambling have maintained a consistent presence over the last few years, entering the mainstream primarily as a result of EA’s launch of Battlefront 2 in late 2017[7]. Since then there have...

September 11, 2018 In eSports, News By Max Sjöblom

The phenomena of esports, Yle Radio 1 show (in Finnish)

What is this whole esports phenomena about, how many people play & watch these games, and what about these huge sums of money that are starting to be part of the esports industry? To answer some of these questions, Max Sjöblom from the Gamification Group...

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 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...