GamiFIN 2020 is delighted to announce Elisa Mekler as a keynote of the conference!
Elisa Mekler is an assistant professor in Human-Computer Interaction at the Aalto University, Department of Computer Science, Espoo, Finland. Her research interests concern the motivational and emotional processes underlying User Experience, Games and Gamification. In particular, Mekler studies how interactive systems afford emotional, intrinsically motivating and meaningful experiences, as well as the challenges inherent to defining, designing and evaluating these concepts. She was the first to conduct empirical studies on the impact of Gamification on intrinsic motivation, with the resulting work being among the most cited papers published in Computers in Human Behavior. Mekler’s publications also garnered several Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at the leading human-computer interaction conferences CHI and CHI PLAY.