During the last decades, games have penetrated everyday life by becoming an established segment of the entertainment industry and of consumer culture, while becoming an integral part of people’s lives. Gamification refers to designing products, services and organizational practices to afford similar experiences to games, and consequently, to attempt to create value and affect people’s behaviour. In recent years, the popularity of gamification has skyrocketed and is manifested in growing numbers of gamified applications, as well as a rapidly increasing amount of research. Healthcare, educational and organizational contexts have been especially prominent fields for gamification interventions and solutions. Gameful restructuring of activities has been perceived as a potentially effective way of increasing motivation and participation in such contexts. Research in the given contexts has seemed to support the idea that gamification can indeed be beneficial for increasing engagement and commitment in, for example, healthy habits and exercise, learning, and work.

GAMIFIN is the annual gathering of the international gamification research community.

The 7th GamiFIN will take place in magical Lapland and the organizers truly encourage you to join us there.

The GamiFIN 2023 conference welcomes 1) paper submissions, 2) posters 3) doctoral consortium applications.