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On Saturday, 21st of October, we are opening our laboratory to anyone interested in our gamification research at the "Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft" in Nürnberg. We invite you to take part in interactive experiments in which participants can get insights into our current projects: Collaborat...

On September 21st, 2023 we were guests at the House of Games in Nuremberg and got a unique insight into the German Games Archive. Between around 40,000 board games, we reflected on our ongoing research projects and gathered new inspiration while playing some analog games. Many thanks to the city of...

On September 12, the official launch of the project "Privacy in the Metaverse", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), took place. Together with project partners ConPolicy - Institute for Consumer Policy, University of Bonn, and University of Göttingen, the founda...

The robots are ready, and you? Under this title, we are starting an interactive experiment in JOSEPHS - The Open Innovation Laboratory in Nuremberg today. From 7.7.-9.7. we offer the opportunity to play a game where you have to collaborate with a robot. The game has been developed by one of our F...

Today we had the great pleasure of welcoming Georgina Guillén-Hanson and Daniel Fernández Galeote from Gamification Group in Finland 🇫🇮 as guest lecturers in our course Designing Gamified Systems. In an interactive workshop, these two experts in gamification and sustainability research gave our stud...

We are happy to announce that Juho Hamari, Nannan Xi, and Ana Tome Klock from the Gamification Group, and Benedikt Morschheuser will organise the next gamification minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS in January 2024, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA. Gamification refers...

We are pleased to invite you to submit your latest games or gamification research to our call for papers at the 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, 4th and 5th of October 2023, Tampere, Finland. Together with Prof. Juho Hamari, Prof. Dr. Benedikt Morschheuser is co-chairing this year’s ...

We are happy to announce the successful lunch of the Greenify.work app at FAU. In the coming weeks and months, students and employees can use the app developed by Jeanine Krath to support sustainability at FAU. Our research group accompanies the project with a research project and examines how th...

We are excited to announce that on Monday 19th of December 2022, at 6 pm CET, we'll be getting a glimpse into the future of gamified education and training on Metaverse platforms with book author and game designer Zander Brumbaugh. While the current generation of kids already spends large parts o...

Human beings are social species that rely on cooperation to survive, further evolve, and overcome urgent challenges. From everyday interactions to the greatest human endeavors, our success mostly depends on the ability to work together. The rise of digital technologies has set in motion an epochal s...