This document discusses gamification ecosystems and their use in non-leisure contexts. It introduces the concept of gamification as using game mechanics to engage users in solving problems outside of games. Gamification ecosystems aim to provide an environment that is both fun and enables achieving learning goals by integrating different gamification approaches and tools to work together. The document notes there is still no consensus on how effective games can be for purposes other than fun, and no unified methodology for developing and applying games in different contexts. It aims to help address these questions through research on gamification ecosystems.

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Gamification ecosystems
Miroslav Minović, Miloš Milovanović
University of Belgrade

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Introduction
 Major aim of this track is to bring actual theoretical and applied
research in the field of game application and development in
different areas, such as education and training, business,
marketing, product development, group problem solving, etc.

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Gamification
 After initial exploitation of serious, new term of gamification
emerged, as the use of game thinking and game mechanics
in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems
 Serious games can be described as developing and applying
games for “serious stuff”. On the other hand, gamification is the
use of game design elements in non-leisure contexts

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Gamification ecosystems
 Rather than to talk about one kind of game or game system, we
decided to use term ecosystem
 That is to integrate different approaches and orchestrate
different tools in order to make them work together
 Aim of gamification ecosystems is to provide an environment
that is both fun and enables the achievement of learning
goals.

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Conclusion
 There is still no consensus even about answering the question
is it effective to apply games for anything else except for fun
 No widely accepted ontology in the domain
 No unified methodological approach to the development and
application of games in different context
 Major aim of gamification ecosystems track is to try to find an
answer to these questions, as well as to raise awareness of
emerging possibilities to use games in non-leisure context

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Special Issue
 The selected papers in this track will be invited to prepare and
submit an extended version to be considered, after a new peer
review, for publication in a Special Issue of Gamification in
Engineering Education in International Journal of
Engineering Education
 Call for papers with all details can be found here: www.ijee.ie