Research fields

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

 

 

 

Selection of our research fields and interests:

Gaming meets Product & Service Design

• Designing gamified information systems
• Motivational design
• Game design patterns
• Game thinking
• Gamified crowdsourcing and co-creation
• Personalized gamification
• Gamification of future mobility and transportation (e.g. 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 collaboration 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”
• Gamifying sustainable behavior at work

Gaming meets Sports & Health

• Gamification of exercise, sports & quantified-self
• Virtual and augmented reality in sports
• Location-based games
• eSports
• Gamification in corporate health
• Gamification of prevention, therapy and rehabilitation

Gaming meets Society and Culture

• Inclusive and accessible games and gamification
• Ethics of gamification
• Gamification to prevent and counter radicalization and extremism
• Data Privacy in the Metaverse
• Understanding the creator economy