Articles about gamification

Creating an app to help children read

An application will help children in special school to improve their reading ability. Better reading ability will hopefully contribute to greater participation in society. – We want to find out if computer game technology can increase the children's intrest in reading, says Peter Parnes, Professor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

The Crown Princess Couple's foundation continues to support research

The Active School Transportation Project, which will motivate more children to walk or go by bike to school, has received continued funding by the Crown Princess Couple's Foundation. – It is an honour, says Anna-Karin Lindqvist, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy at Luleå University of Technology.

Active transportation can improve children’s health

Technology and involvement will be used to motivate young people to increase their daily physical activity. Today, about half of Swedish children walk to school and to their activities. Through a multidisciplinary project funded by Vinnova, researchers at Luleå University of Technology hope that to increase that to 80 percent.

Computer game technology for new applications

Computer game technology has developed a lot in recent years and has become much more accessible. More games are created than ever and it also means that the tools for creating new games are constantly evolving to make it easier for computer game creators to create new games. This computer game technology can be applied to applications other than computer games.

New research: That made Pokémon Go so popular

The game Pokémon Go has been lauded for promoting children's physical activity.
Researchers at Luleå University of Technology have studied the components that made the game so popular. According to the result it is not a competition – but cooperation.

Games can enhance youth reading comprehension

Can game design elements similar to television and computer games enhance youth reading comprehension and increase the interest in fiction? Caroline Graeske and Stefan Lundström, researcher at Luleå University of Technology, belives so.

Great interest in games and children's physical activity

Anna-Karin Lindqvist and Josef Hallberg, researchers at Luleå University of Technology, filled the The Great Northern in Skellefteå with their lecture on how digital games can promote children's physical activity. The lecture is part of the series University presents.

Startup for the project Pokémon goes to school

How can the popular game Pokémon Go be used to increase children's and young people's physical activity? Students in grade 4 at Porsöskolan in Luleå will help researchers at Luleå University of Technology find out by performing assignments and collecting pieces of puzzle.

Pokemon Go's success factors studied

In July, Pokemon Go was down loaded 100 million times. Now, a research team will investigating what makes the game so popular, so they can use the knowledge in further studies of children's physical activity and gamification. Also how factors like winter and cold affect a game like Pokémon Go will be investigated.

Research on games that changes behaviors

Luleå University of Technolgy will establish research in the area of gamification. This is within the framework of a four-year project in collaboration with the municipality of Luleå.

Motivational applications

How can we use technology to help people feel better, use their time better, and learning new things easier? Often it is about achieving a lasting behaviour change, but it is not always easy to find the motivation to do so.

Research in game technology and gamification

Funds have been recieved for establishing and increasing the research about game technologies, gaming and gamification at Luleå University of Technology in Skellefteå and Luleå.

Active school transportation gives children better health

The number of children who reach the recommended level of 60 minutes of daily physical activity is low. In addition, children walking and cycling to and from school declined sharply in recent decades. Now, a project is implemented at Luleå University of Technology in collaboration with Luleå Municipality to find ways to increase children's active school transport and reverse the trend.

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 11 October 2019
By:IT
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