GamiFIN 2025: GamiFIN Conference 2025 Ylläs, Lapland Ylläs, Finland, April 1-4, 2025

Conference website	https://gamifinconference.com/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gamifin2025
Submission deadline	November 17, 2024

 

 

GamiFIN will again be held in snowy and magical northern Finland!

GamiFIN 2025 conference welcomes paper submissions, posters, practical cases, work-in-progress notes, demos, special theme notes, and doctoral consortium applications.

Accepted papers will be published by CEUR and indexed as full peer-reviewed academic publications. CEUR-WS.org is a free open-access publication service and recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073.

Previous GamiFIN proceedings are available at https://gamifinconference.com/proceedings.

 

Important dates

• November 17th, 2024: Papers’ submission deadline.
• December 23rd, 2024: Notifications of acceptance/rejection sent to authors.
• January 12th, 2025: Submission deadline for posters, work in progress, demos, doctoral consortium notes, practical cases.
• January 12th, 2025: Deadline for camera-ready submission for accepted papers.
• January 19th, 2025: Notification of acceptance for posters, work in progress, demos, doctoral consortium, and practical cases.
• February 23rd, 2025: Registration deadline for presenters of full papers  (1 presenting author needs to register by this date)
• February 23rd, 2025: Submission deadline for extended abstracts and notes for special theme workshops and seminars (all submissions in this category are accepted)
• March 23rd, 2025: General registration deadline (*)
• April 1-4, 2025: Conference.

All deadlines mentioned above are AOE.

 

Themes

Gamification is a multi-faceted phenomenon that affects many domains of human life. Therefore, we welcome submissions related to this ludic transformation of reality under several domains and related (but not limited) to the following keywords:

• • Users: e.g., Engagement, experience, user types
  • Education: e.g., Gamification in education, serious games, game-based learning, games & math
  • Media: e.g., Esports, streaming, social media and gamification, gamification in journalism & media
  • Commerce: e.g., Business models, free-to-play, gambling, gamification in marketing/advergaming
  • Work: e.g., Organizational gamification, gameful work, gamification in leadership, playbour
  • Technology: e.g., Virtual reality, augmented reality, internet of things, wearables, AI, machine learning, privacy, security
  • Toys & play: e.g., Toy play, toy design/creation, toys in education, internet of toys, toyfication, roleplay
  • Health: e.g., Quantified self, games & gamification for health, COVID-19, mental health
  • Culture: e.g., Ludification, history of games and gamification, gamification in society, social structures, storification
  • Environment/Climate: Bioeconomy, climate-change engagement, circularity, human/forest interactions 
  • Governance: e.g., Democracy, participation, law enforcement, e-justice, cyber forensics, urban planning, smart and playable cities, surveillance
  • Design: e.g., Design principles, design methods, designing gamification, gamification artifacts, playful and speculative design
  • Theories/concepts/methods: Contributions to science around gamification
  • Critical approach to gamification: Detrimental effects of gamification or metrification, aspects of poor quality of gamification and gamification research, extrinsic control, panopticon society, de-gamification
  • Esports & exergaming: e.g., Players/users, health, law, coaching, governance, business models and sponsorship, cultural expression, platforms

Special Themes

In addition to the normal program with a variety of submission formats (below), GamiFIN 2025 features a collection of workshops and seminars on SPECIAL THEMES. Hosted by topic experts and featuring lively discussions, hands-on activities, these workshops offer the chance to find new perspectives for your ongoing research or learn about different topics that you may not have heard before. Besides the typical submission formats, the special theme sessions welcome low-threshold extended abstracts and notes to be submitted as discussion pieces.

Theme 1 – Gameful and playful approaches to shaping a more inclusive society

Theme 2 – Gameful (trans)human futures

Theme 3 – GamiFOREST: The Greater Digital Forest Ecosystem

Theme 4 – Measuring and modeling engagement in gamified and game-based learning

 

 

1. Paper submission guidelines:

Papers submitted to GamiFIN 2025 should have a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 pages (excluding references). The maximum length for papers is 10 standard pages excluding references. In accordance with CEUR publication guidelines, the minimum length for papers is 5 standard pages. Papers falling between 5-9 standard pages in length are referred to as short papers in the proceedings. Nevertheless, all papers are reviewed similarly through a double-blind peer-review process

Accepted papers are published and indexed as full peer-reviewed publications. 

All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Therefore, the authors are required to remove any information that could give an indication of authorship. 

In the online submission system, you will be asked to list the most relevant themes of your paper as keywords.

Paper submissions must conform to the CEUR 2-column word template available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEUR-Template-2col.docx 

Two column format latex template at Overleaf may also be used. Use the “sample-2col.tex” file.

At the conference, the authors of accepted papers will have approximately 15-20 minutes for their presentation, including the discussion.

Previous GamiFIN proceedings are available at https://gamifinconference.com/proceedings/.

 

2. Other submissions format:

We have developed the GamiFIN doctoral consortium to support and guide the doctoral students working on topics related to GamiFIN themes (see top of this page). The GamiFIN doctoral consortium is a place for doctoral students to present their work to a panel of leading scholars in the area of gamification and other accepted doctoral consortium students. The panel of experts will give each student feedback on their work and help guide them forward in their studies. Based on the experiences of previous GamiFIN doctoral consortia, the consortium also provides peer support and a community of students interested in similar topics.

You can apply to the doctoral consortium whether or not your work has been accepted for the conference (paper and/or poster).

To participate in the Doctoral Consortium, please submit a summary of your work (submission details below) and your CV by January 12th, 2025.

 

Please submit the following documents in PDF-format:

1. A maximum of five-page summary* of your doctoral research plan and status, including for example the following:

• Your research topic
• The goals and research problems and questions
• Your research approach and methods
• Theoretical framework(s) used in the research
• Publication plan
• The current status of your work
• Results to date

You may also list topics you would like to discuss at the consortium and questions to the consortium mentors and peers. * References are not included in the page limitation.

2. Your CV, describing your academic activity and the current stage of your doctoral research project.

Please submit your documents in PDF-format!

Summary documents must conform to the following template: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEUR-Template-1col.docx 

One column format latex template at overleaf may also be used. Use the “sample-1col.tex” file.

 

 

4. Special theme (Workshop/Seminar) guidelines: 

The special theme activities welcome a maximum of up to 1-page extended abstracts or position notes that can be submitted for the session to be shared and discussed with other participants. Participation in the special theme workshops and seminars is open to anyone interested in the theme, regardless of having submitted a note for the session. This is also a chance to discover other topics that may relate to your work or learn about something exciting and different.