This volume of CEUR-WS Proceedings contains 20 papers presented at the 4th International GamiFIN Conference (GamiFIN 2020). The conference was held as an online conference on April 1-3, 2020.
Copyright © 2020 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permitted only for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors. The GamiFIN conference is an annual international academic conference on gamification with rigorous double blind international peer-review practices. The conference brings together a community of researchers and practitioners to present results from their latest work regarding gamification.
The fourth international GamiFIN conference, organized by the Gamification Group, took place on April 1-3, 2020. The conference was planned to be held in Levi, Finland, but due to the COVID19 pandemic restrictions the conference was held online. All of the planned conference sessions and keynote were delivered and attended by the conference participants using Zoom software. GamiFIN 2020 was chaired by Professor Juho Hamari and Dr. Jonna Koivisto. GamiFIN 2020 conference was proud to have as a keynote speaker Assistant Professor Andreas Lieberoth (University of Aarhus, Denmark) who has conducted extensive research on the behavioural and psychological impact of gamification.
GamiFIN 2020 included six academic paper sessions: 1) Gamification (general); 2) Gamification & Education; 3) Gamification & Consumption; 4) Gamification on the Move; 5) Gameful Media; and 6) Esports and Streaming. The session themes were based on the themes of the accepted academic papers. Altogether, 20 academic research papers were accepted to be presented at the conference. GamiFIN participants came from all over the world including Germany, Lithuania, Austria, Czech Republic, Egypt, South Africa, Australia, Saudi Arabia, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, and Finland. The academic papers were gathered through a call for papers issued in autumn 2019. The conference management system EasyChair was utilized for paper submissions, with a double blind peer review process being employed. The international program committee of the conference consisted of experts in various fields related to gamification. The acceptance rate for submissions was 36%.
The GamiFIN 2020 Best Paper award was presented to Marigo Raftopoulos for their paper "Has gamification failed, or failed to evolve? Lessons from the frontline in information systems applications". The GamiFIN 2020 Best Presentation award was presented to Lobna Hassan for the presentation of their paper "The relationship between player types and gamification feature preferences". The GamiFIN 2020 Best Poster award was presented to Mattia Thibault for the presentation of their poster "Strategies of Urban Toyification".
In addition to the academic paper track, GamiFIN 2020 hosted a doctoral consortium. Altogether 7 doctoral students presented their work at the doctoral consortium, where they received feedback on their research projects from a panel consisting of the conference chairs and senior scholars in the field of gamification. Furthermore, GamiFIN 2020 featured two poster sessions, where 12 posters on academic work-in-progress were presented. Altogether the conference was attended by 47 participants.
July 2020
Jonna Koivisto
GamiFIN 2020 Conference and Program Chairs
Juho Hamari, Gamification Group, Tampere University, Finland Jonna Koivisto, Gamification Group, Tampere University, Finland GamiFIN 2020 Organizing Chair
Maria Törhönen, Gamification Group, Tampere University, Finland GamiFIN 2020 Online Conference Technical Organization
Mila Bujić, Gamification Group, Tampere University, Finland Nikoletta Zampeta Legaki, Gamification Group, Tampere University, Finland GamiFIN 2020 Online Conference Extracurricular Chairs
Mattia Thibault, Tampere University, Finland
Oğuz Turan Buruk, Tampere University, Finland
Amon Rapp, University of Turin, Italy Athanasios Mazarakis, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany Elisa Mekler, University of Basel, Switzerland Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA J. Tuomas Harviainen, Tampere University, Finland Jonna Koivisto, Tampere University, Finland Juho Hamari, Tampere University, Finland Kristian Kiili, Tampere University, Finland Lennart Nacke, University of Waterloo, Canada Mattia Thibault, Tampere University, Finland Oğuz Turan Buruk, Tampere University, Finland Richard N. Landers, University of Minnesota, USA Sylvester Arnab, Coventry University, UK Welf H. Weiger, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany