Posts by: Gamification Research Network

Next year’s Game Developers Conference (March 5-9, 2012) in San Francisco features a daylong “Game IT Summit“, “focused on the use of videogames to tackle common organizational goals through enterprise-focused game development”. The CFP – deadline October 31, 2011 – calls for “fresh thinking” beyond serious games on the hand and shallow gamification on the [...]

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There’s a new game studies journal in Italy, and it’s inaugural issue is going to cover gamification (among other things).

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Apart from the gamification workshop, this year’s CHI conference also featured quite a number of regular papers that more or less directly spoke to our interest in the use of game design in non-game contexts, so we thought we would parse the program and share our (admittedly, subjective) list of findings. If we missed one [...]

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This has been long overdue, but here they are: The collected slides (and some photos) of the Gamification Workshop at CHI in Vancouver on May 7, 2011. Videos and more to follow. Enjoy!

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This might be late for some, but the MindTrek conference, a small Scandinavian conference gem on “social media, ambient/ubiquitous media, games, media management and open source”, running September 28-30 2011, has just extended its deadline for full and short papers to June 12. This year’s games track features “gamification, funware and playful designs” as one [...]

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We’re still fiddling with some files and diddling with some delayed infos, but still: The papers and participants of our CHI 2011 workshop are finally online! So check them out – or download our handy bundle (5 MB, PDF) of all workshop papers for your offline reading pleasure.

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Good news: Following several requests by colleagues, we have decided to extend the deadline of submissions to the gamification workshop at CHI 2011 for two weeks. The new dates are: Submission deadline: January 28, 2011 Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2011 We hope that reduces the stress level of everyone and allows you to give [...]

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We’re pleased to announce that Rajat Paharia, founder and chief product officer of major gamification service vendor Bunchball, will join the Gamification workshop at CHI 2011 as industry expert.

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We’re delighted to announce that our proposal for a one-day workshop on gamification at the CHI 2011 in Vancouver (May 7-12, 2011) has been accepted. Please read and share our CFP at http://gamification-research.org/chi2011/cfp. More to come as we build out the site. For questions or comments, please contact us at chi2011 at gamification-research.org.

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