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April 24, 2025 In Uncategorized By Xinyi Yang

Avatar Customisation and Empowerment in VR Collaboration – A New Study on Self-Representation and Self-Perception

In a newly published article in New Media & Society, we investigated how the ability to customise avatars in social immersive virtual reality (VR) affects users’ self-perceptions during collaborative tasks. The study, titled “Virtually Better: Multi-user Experiment on Avatar Self-representation, Self-discrepancies, Avatar Style and Self-perceptions...

March 27, 2025 In Uncategorized By Xinyi Yang

CALL FOR PAPERS: SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO GAMIFICATION GROUP (CO-)CHAIRED TRACKS AT HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES 2026

Once again, this year you can submit your paper for one of the Gamification Group (co-)chaired minitrack at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2026). According to Microsoft Academic in 2021, in terms of citations, HICSS has ranked first among information systems as well as...

March 27, 2025 In Uncategorized By Xinyi Yang

CALL FOR PAPERS: Computing education minitrack in the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’ 2026)

Submit your paper Computing Education (CE), also known as Computer Science Education, is best known as the field leading the conversation about what, how, and for whom Computer Science should be taught. Computational thinking has been a theme emphasized by educators and researchers in the field,...

March 27, 2025 In Uncategorized By Xinyi Yang

CALL FOR PAPERS: Gamification minitrack in the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’ 2026)

Submit your paper Interaction with games is considered to have positive effects on our cognitive, emotional, social and motivational abilities. It isn’t surprising, then, that our reality and lives are increasingly becoming game-like. This is not limited to the fact that digital games have become a...

March 27, 2025 In Uncategorized By Xinyi Yang

CALL FOR PAPERS: Game-based learning minitrack in the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’ 2026)

Submit your paper Game-Based Learning (GBL) is an evolving field that integrates game elements, mechanics, and principles into education and training to enhance students’ experience and learning outcomes. As digital learning landscapes rapidly expand, GBL continues to evolve, incorporating cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI),...

April 23, 2024 In Uncategorized By Juhani Linna

Apply for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Games and Gamification at Tampere University

Photo: Jonne Renvall At Tampere University, more than a hundred staff members from three faculties are involved in game-related research that encompasses game studies, gamification, playfulness, game-based learning, gameful and persuasive technologies, gameful design and more. The ten professors that lead the body of researchers welcome,...