Jeanine Kirchner-Krath

Jeanine Kirchner-Krath

Curriculum Vitae

Jeanine Kirchner-Krath is a postdoctoral researcher in the Gamification & Digital Customer Engagement research group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

She studied at the University of Koblenz and received her M. Sc. in Information Management there in 2019. From 2020 to 2023, she completed her PhD in the research group for the management of information, innovation, entrepreneurship and organization at the University of Koblenz as part of the Greenify.work research project funded by the Foundation of German Business (https://greenify.work/) and established a competence center for gamification in organizations and for sustainability (GAMOS) at the University of Koblenz as academic director. From September to December 2022, she visited the Gamification Group led by Prof. Dr. Juho Hamari at the University of Tampere, Finland, as a visiting scholar. As part of her activities as a research assistant, she supported the use of gamified learning principles and Educational Escape Rooms in university teaching and was awarded the University Prize for Digital Teaching for her work.

Dr. Kirchner-Krath’s research focuses on gamification and motivational information systems for sustainable development, in particular for promoting sustainable employee behavior in companies. A special focus of her research activities is the continuous collaboration with entrepreneurs and practitioners to explore the potential of gamified systems for sustainability (e.g. environmentally friendly behavior, employee health and fitness, mental health) in the work context and to make them usable for corporate decision makers.

Research Interests

  • Digital Sustainability
  • Green Information Systems
  • Motivational Information Systems
  • Gamification
  • Sustainable Behavior

Publications

2024

2023

2022

2021

Scientific Communication (Selection)

Awards (Selection)

Community and Reviewer Activities

2025: Track Chair of the Minitrack “Gameful IS for Sustainable Development”, AMCIS 2025
Program Committee of the 9th International GamiFIN Conference 2025
Associate Editor of the WI 2025
2024: Associate Chair of the CHI Play 2024 (special recognition as superstar first-time AC)
Associate Editor of the WI 2024

Information Systems Journal
Business & Information Systems Engineering
Internet Research
Behavior & Information Technology
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

ICIS 2024
CHI Play 2024 (three special recognitions for outstanding reviews)
Academic Mindtrek 2024
PACIS 2024
CHI 2024 (special recognition for outstanding reviews)
ECIS 2024
57th Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences 2024 (HICSS)
8th International GamiFIN Conference 2024
2023: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
Journal of Research on Technology in Education
Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning

ECIS 2023
CHI Play 2023
CHI 2023
56th Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences 2023 (HICSS)
2022: AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Computers & Education
International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

ICIS 2022
CHI Play 2022 (special recognition for outstanding reviews)
6th International GamiFIN Conference 2022
CHI 2022
Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik 2022 (WI)
55th Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences 2022 (HICSS)
2021: CHI Play 2021
24th International Academic Mindtrek conference 2021
21st Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management 2021 (EURAM)
29th European Conference on Information Systems 2021 (ECIS)