Paula Bräuer

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | CAU · Department of Computer Science

In gamification research, most game design elements are currently being tested simultaneously. To gain more detailed knowledge about the effect of game design elements in non-game contexts, the impact of individual elements should be considered more closely. Also, the interactive experience of using augmented reality in real-world environment is be...

Current gamification research usually examines several game design elements at the same time, which makes it difficult to distinguish how and to what extent individual game design elements increase motivation. We address this research question by individually examining four game design elements (progress bar, narrative, feedback, and badges) in an...

Intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant have become increasingly popular in recent years, and research into the topic is growing accordingly. A major challenge in designing IVA applications is making them appealing. Gamification as a concept might help to boost motivation when using IVAs. Visual representation of...

Gamification can increase motivation in learning, and intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) can support foreign language learning at home. However, there is a lack of design concepts to motivate learners to practice with their IVA. This study combines both concepts and analyzes if audio-gamification can increase engagement to address this research...

The immersive nature of virtual reality (VR) allows even complex information to be communicated in an engaging, interactive, and fast way. This is particularly useful in the case of long-term political processes, such as the siting, construction, and management of a repository for high-level radioactive waste (HLRW). In this paper, we present an ap...

Best Paper Award GamiFIN 2023

Ein partizipatives WebGIS für die Endlagerstandortsuche I Impressum Mit dem Projekt TRANSENS wird erstmalig in Deutschland transdisziplinäre Forschung zur nuklearen Entsorgung in größerem Maßstab betrieben. TRANSENS ist ein Verbundvorha-ben, in dem 16 Institute bzw. Fachgebiete von neun deutschen und zwei Schweizer Uni-versitäten und Forschungseinr...

Intelligent virtual assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are mainly used to request information or play music. However, they can also be used to play voice-enabled games. So far, very little research has looked at this new form of gaming. To fill this research gap, 29 games from the Amazon Alexa Store were systematically stud...

Punkte zählen zu den am meisten verwendeten Spieldesignelemen-ten im Bereich von Gamification. Allerdings existieren keine Studi-en dazu, welche konkreten Punktewerte sinnvoll sind und wann zu wenig oder zu viele Punkte vergeben werden könnten. In der vorlie-genden Umfragestudie wurden die Daten von 160 Teilnehmenden analysiert, wobei 154 Teilnehme...

This study presents a first experimental approach for the use of intelligent virtual assistants (IVA) to support political participation. In order to involve as many citizens as possible in participatory political processes, such as the search for a repository site for high-level radioactive waste, IVAs could offer a possibility to convey informati...

Germany's debate on nuclear energy is characterized by a potential for conflict. With the Repository Site Selection Act, a new strategy was adopted for a participatory search process for the best possible repository site for high-level radioactive waste in Germany. To gain insights into how a Public Participatory GIS application (PPGIS) can contrib...

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Nach über 60 Jahren Nutzung ziviler Kernenergie in Deutschland und dem Atomausstieg bis 2022 stellt sich die Frage nach der Endlagerung (hoch-)radioaktiven Abfällen mit stetig steigender Dringlichkeit. Für die Endlagersuche in Deutschland trat 2017 das Standortauswahlgesetz (StandAG) in Kraft, das ein partizipatives, wissenschaftsbasiertes und tran...

The political and social debate on nuclear energy in Germany has been characterized for many decades by a high potential for conflict and dissatisfaction. In particular, the controversies surrounding the Gorleben salt dome achieved international attention and altered the relationship between the population and political decision makers at the local...

The search for a final nuclear repository in Germany poses a societal and political issue of high national medial presence and controversy. The German Repository Site Selection Act demands the search to be a "participatory, science-based […] process". Also, the repository search combines numerous scientific aspects (e.g., geological analyses, techn...

In this submission, a new concept for the application of augmented reality in warehouse management is presented. The new tool offers the possibility to visualize the turnover rate of products in a warehouse and to optimize the location of products according to this key performance indicator. A prototype of the application was developed for the Micr...

Gamification is the use of game-design elements in non-game contexts. Gamification has been used in many different contexts to motivate different audiences, but the effect on scientists has not yet been sufficiently investigated. In a field study with 28 scientists the effects of the game design elements badge and progress bar are examined for thei...

Most scientists are aware that, in addition to the traditional and subscription-based publication model, there is also the possibility of publishing their research in open access. Various surveys show that scientists are in favour of this new model. Nevertheless, the transition to open access has been very slow so far. In order to accelerate this p...

Obwohl den meisten Wissenschaftler/innen bekannt ist, dass es neben dem traditionellen und abonnementbasierten Publikationsmodell, auch die Möglichkeit existiert, ihre Forschung Open Access zu publizieren und Wissenschaftler/innen dieses neue Modell laut verschiedenen Umfragen überwiegend befürworten, findet die Transformation zu Open Access bisher...

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In einem Experiment mit 66 untersuchten Probanden wurde die motivierende Wirkung der beiden Spielelemente Abzeichen und Bestenliste im Umfeld eines durch Augmented Reality gestützten Lagerprozessesbetrachtet. Konkret wurde die Wirkung der beiden Elemente auf die individuelle Motivation der Probanden und die Geschwindigkeit bei der Ausführung von Ar...

An experiment with 66 subjects was conducted within an augmented reality (AR) order-picking task using Microsoft HoloLens. The objective of the experiment was to test the use of gamification in AR order-picking. Also, another goal was to identify problems in the development of the AR software as well as to detect general problems with the use of AR...

Gamification aims to increase motivation in non-game contexts by using game design elements. Usually gamification research examines the impact of multiple game design elements, making it almost impossible to find out how and to what extent these elements individually contribute to user motivation. To narrow this research gap the present study uses...