Research Group

We are happy to announce that Juho Hamari, Nannan Xi, and Ana Tome Klock from the Gamification Group, and Benedikt Morschheuser from our research group will organise the Gamification minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS in January 2025, Hilton Waikoloa Village, ...

We are pleased to invite you to submit your latest research to the Games or Gamification track at the 27th International Academic Mindtrek conference, which will take place between the 8th and 11th of October 2024 in Tampere, Finland. The Academic Mindtrek conference is an exciting meeting place whe...

Our gamification research group, along with students from the Master's program 'International Information Systems' and Sandra Jeleazcov from the University Hospital in Erlangen, attended the Bavarian gaming event of the year. Amidst brand-new games, e-sports, expert lectures, anime, and cosplay, ...

Today, the German television news service "tagesschau.de" delves into the application of gamification in the workplace. I had the honor of providing an in-depth interview before the article, where I underscored the potential benefits and risks of integrating gamification into work environments. I am...

The exhibition "Metaverse: Phenomenal Digital?" is currently running at the Deutsches Museum Nürnberg. The exhibition explains the essential foundations of this future vision, provides insights into current metaverse platforms, and discusses the social, economic, and legal dimensions of this phenome...

Economic, social and ecological sustainability presents one of the greatest challenges of our society. As a result, there is growing pressure on a variety of organizations to implement sustainability programs, such as inclusion training related to social sustainability, cost management programs rela...

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...