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Driven by the rising popularity of (video) games, technology, business and society are increasingly influenced and penetrated by games and trends of the gaming industry. One of the probably most important phenomena of this multi-faceted development is “gamification”, which addresses the use of design principles and features from games in information systems, process or service design.

Gamification’s popularity stems from the notion that games are a pinnacle form of hedonic information systems and thus are particularly effective in invoking intrinsic motivation and experiences such as autonomy, mastery, flow, immersion, relatedness and overall enjoyment. Across industries, marketers, designers and developers are thus using gamification as a design approach when engineering digital products and services with the purpose of inducing gameful experiences, influencing human motivation and even change behavior in various contexts.

This course

• teaches the key concepts, design patterns, and approaches of motivational, hedonic (i.e. games and video games), social and gamified information systems.
• offers deep insights into advanced concepts and theoretical foundations of game design, motivational psychology, and information system design.
• introduces methods and frameworks for designing gamified systems and managing gamification projects.
• discusses latest research findings and the potential impact of gamification on society, economy and everyday life.

Capstone Project

The course is complemented with a practical project, where students in a team select and apply design methods & techniques in order to create a prototype of a gamified / hedonic information system. Within this project the students can apply knowledge and skills acquired in this lecture and their studies in a challenging context. The results are presented towards peers and/or experts from research and/or industry.

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Benedikt Morschheuser

Guest lecturers:
Alexander Satanowsky – Head of in-Car Gaming – Mercedes-Benz AG
Georgina Guillén-Hanson – Researcher on Gamifying Sustainable Consumption – Gamification Group

Course details

Lecture + Capstone Project, 4 SWS, ECTS-Credits: 5

Dates

Thursday, 13:15-16:30 , Zoom-Meeting

Module compatibility

WF IIS-MA 1 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
WF IIS-MA 2 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
WF IIS-MA 3 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
WF IIS-MA 4 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
WF WING-MA ab 1 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
WF ICT-MA ab 1 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
WF EEI-MA ab 1 (ECTS-Credits: 5)

ECTS

Credits: 5

Registration

07. February 2021, 14:00 – 14. April 2021, 12:00 via StudOn.

Additional information

More details on course updates, materials, technical requirements, and other information will be announced in StudOn.

Keywords: Gamification, Interactive Information Systems, HCI, Customer Engagement, Social Computing, Hedonic Systems, Games

Patente

You are interested in conducting research in the field of gamification, games, digital customer experience, eCommerce, crowdsourcing, AR/VR, eSports, human-computer interaction, new media …?

Please take a look at our job offers or send us an unsolicited application:

Researchers

Unfortunately we have no vacancies at the moment. However, we are always interested in getting in contact with motivated and creative researchers who want to become part of our research group.

Further, we offer support in writing an application for international doctoral programs, e.g. in cooperation with the Finnish Gamification Group, as well as PhD scholarships.

For experienced researchers we offer support in writing an application for the attractive Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarships from the European Union and other scholarship programs.

External Researchers

We are open to external doctoral candidates who would like to join our team. If you are interested please check the WISO and FAU guidelines for external PhD students. When all criteria are met, please contact us!

Research Assistants

The start-up of a chair for gamification and digital customer engagement offers space for a wide range of tasks. Are you a student at FAU and interested? Please write us an email with a résumé, an overview of grades and a summary of your skills, your motivation and areas of interest.

Current Job Offers

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Offers of Partners

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We create impactful scientific knowledge about the ongoing penetration of society, technology, economy and everyday life with digital games and emerging phenomena of the gaming industry in order to better understand these developments and to support society and organizations in solving problems in a ‘gameful’ way

 

 

 

Research Fields and Interests:

Gaming meets Product & Service Design

• Designing gamified information systems and hedonic information systems
• Motivational design
• Gamified products (z.B. wearables, smart cloths) and digital services
• Virtual & Augmented Reality
• Gamification-supported IT adoption & use (e.g. gamified robotics, conversational AI, autonomous systems …)
• Gamification of future mobility and transportation, in-car gaming…

Gaming meets Marketing & Sales

• „Digital customer engagement
• „Customer steering in the omni-channel
• „Loyalty programs
• „Virtual goods and commerce in the Metaverse
• „Customer insights, gamers/players as customers

Gaming meets Work & Collaboration

• Gamification in technology-mediated work e.g. crowdsourcing, remote work
• Gamification for creativity and ingenuity
• Serious and educational games
• Gamification in organizational transformation initiatives
• Human-AI teaming and collaboration
• Work and education in the “Metaverse”

Gaming meets Sports & Health

• eSports
• Gamification of fitness, sports & quantified-self
• Virtual and augmented reality in sports
• Location-based gaming
• Gamification in corporate health
• Wearables for gaming and sports