Prof. Dr. Benedikt Morschheuser

2025

• Birnstiel, S., Xie, R., Eiting, J., & Morschheuser, B. (2025). Crisis Preparedness Through Casual Gaming? - A Self-Efficacy Perspective. (Unpublished, Accepted).
• Riar, M., Weber, M., Ebert, J., & Morschheuser, B. (2025). Can Gamification Foster Trust-Building in Human-Robot Collaboration? An Experiment in Virtual Reality. Information Systems Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-024-10573-z

2024

• Birnstiel, S. (2024). Social Gamification in Team Sports - Design Concept and Preliminary Evaluation. In Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (Eds.), Workshopband (pp. 1-8). Karlsruhe, DE.
• Birnstiel, S., & Morschheuser, B. (2024). Exploring gamification in team sports: a scoping review and research agenda. In Proceedings of the 8th International GamiFIN Conference. Ruka, Finnland, FI: CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
• Birnstiel, S., Steinkamp, L., Duemler, B., & Morschheuser, B. (2024). Designing Gamification for Team Sports: Mapping of the Problem Space and Design Recommendations. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2024). Paphos, CY: AIS Electronic Library.
• Hörsch, H., von Korflesch, H.F., Kirchner-Krath, J., & Köhler, J. (2024). Online Educational Escape Rooms – Ein Fallbeispiel. In Lorenz Mrohs, Julia Franz, Dominik Herrmann, Konstantin Lindner, Thorsten Staake (Hrg.), Digitale Kulturen der Lehre entwickeln: Rahmenbedingungen, Konzepte und Werkzeuge. (S. 223–244). Springer Link.
• Jung-Krenzer, T., Kirchner-Krath, J., Retz, C., & Altmeyer, M. (2024). Leaf your Chair Behind - Calm Persuasion for Frequent Sitting Breaks Among Office-Workers. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 111-128). Karlsruhe, DEU: Association for Computing Machinery.
• Kirchner-Krath, J., Altmeyer, M., Schürmann, L., Kordyaka, B., Morschheuser, B., Klock, A.C.T.,... von Korflesch, H.F. (2024). Uncovering the theoretical basis of user types: An empirical analysis and critical discussion of user typologies in research on tailored gameful design. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103314
• Kirchner-Krath, J., Birnstiel, S., & Morschheuser, B. (2024). Combating Procrastination with Information Systems: A Systematic Review on Design Approaches and Effects. In ECIS 2024 Research Papers. Paphos, CY: AIS Electronic Library.
• Kirchner-Krath, J., Dijkstra-Silva, S., Morschheuser, B., & von Korflesch, H.F. (2024). Gameful systems for corporate sustainability: systematic review, conceptual framework and research agenda on gamification and sustainable employee behavior in companies. Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-06-2024-1000
• Kirchner-Krath, J., Morschheuser, B., Sicevic, N., Xi, N., von Korflesch, H.F., & Hamari, J. (2024). Challenges in the adoption of sustainability information systems: A study on green IS in organizations. International Journal of Information Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2024.102754
• Kirchner-Krath, J., Schmidt-Kraepelin, M., Schöbel, S., Ullrich, M., Sunyaev, A., & von Korflesch, H.F. (2024). Outplay Your Weaker Self: A Mixed-Methods Study on Gamification to Overcome Procrastination in Academia. In Florian Floyd Mueller, Penny Kyburz, Julie R. Willamson, Corina Sas, Max L. Wilson, Phoebe Toups Dugas, Irina Shklovski (Eds.), CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. No. 523). Hybrid, Honolulu, HI, US: New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.
• Oberdörfer, S., Birnstiel, S., & Latoschik, M.E. (2024). Influence of Virtual Shoe Formality on Gait and Cognitive Performance in a VR Walking Task. In Proceedings of the IEEE VR 2024: The 31st IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. Orlando, Florida, USA: IEEE.
• Oberdörfer, S., Birnstiel, S., & Latoschik, M.E. (2024). Proteus effect or bodily affordance? The influence of virtual high-heels on gait behavior. Virtual Reality, 28(81), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-024-00966-5
• Schürmann, L., Kirchner-Krath, J., & von Korflesch, H.F. (2024). Gamification: Motiviertes Lehren und Lernen spielend leicht gemacht. In Michael Ernst-Heidenreich, Claudia Quaiser-Pohl, Frauke Sorajewski, Annika Werger (Eds.), Digitalisierung in der Schule. Ein Praxisbuch zu Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und Herausforderungen. (pp. 82-97). Beltz Juventa.
• Wittmann, M. (2024). Exploring the Effect of Anthropomorphic Design on Trust in Industrial Robots: Insights from a Metaverse Cobot Experiment. In 2024 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, UR 2024 (pp. 118-124). New York, NY, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
• Xie, R., Kirchner-Krath, J., & Morschheuser, B. (2024). Towards an Ethical Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review on Privacy Challenges. In ECIS 2024 Proceedings (pp. 1 - 16). Paphos, CY: AIS Electronic Library.

2023

• Greiner, R., Merk, S., Reiß, S., Stief, J., Wüllner, C., Morschheuser, B., & Jeleazcov, S. (2023, April). Inflammania 3D: Exploring the Use of the Metaverse Platform Roblox for Science Communication. Poster presentation at 7th Annual International GamiFIN Conference 2023, Lapland, FI.
• Guillen Mandujano, G., Riar, M., Morschheuser, B., & Hamari, J. (2023). Gamification as a Catalyst to the Circular Economy. In Lehtimäki Hanna, Aarikka-Stenroos Leena, Jokinen Ari, Jokinen Pekka (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy. (pp. 642). London: Routledge.
• Khosrawi-Rad, B., Rinn, H., Augenstein, D., Markgraf, D., & Robra-Bissantz, S. (2023). Designing Pedagogical Conversational Agents in Virtual Worlds. In Rene Ropke, Ulrik Schroeder (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) (pp. 181-186). Aachen, DEU: Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI).
• Kirchner-Krath, J. (2023). Gamification for Sustainable Employee Behavior: A Design Science Research Study (Dissertation).
• Kirchner-Krath, J., Klock, A.C.T., Morschheuser, B., Park, S., Legaki, Z., von Korflesch, H.F., & Hamari, J. (2023). Designing tailored gamification: A mixed-methods study on expert perspectives and user behavior in a gamified app for sustainability at work. In Proceedings of the 7th International GamiFIN Conference (pp. 1-12). Levi, Finnland, FI.
• Krath, J., Morschheuser, B., von Korflesch, H.F., & Hamari, J. (2023). How to increase sustainable engagement in the workplace through green IS: The role of instructional and motivational design features. In ECIS 2023 Research Papers. Kristiansand, NO: AIS Electronic Library.
• Laato, S., Morschheuser, B., Hamari, J., & Björne, J. (2023). AI-assisted learning with ChatGPT and large language models: Implications for higher education. In Proceedings of the The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2023). Orem, US.
• Lin, L., Morschheuser, B., Offergelt, F., & Moser, K. (2023, September). The role of territorial behavior in shaping user engagement on enterprise collaboration platforms. Paper presentation at Fifth German Human Factors Summer School, Chemnitz, DE.
• Riar, M., Morschheuser, B., Zarnekow, R., & Hamari, J. (2023). Altruism or egoism – How do game features motivate cooperation? An investigation into user we-intention and I-intention. Behaviour & Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2196581
• Weber, M., Riar, M., & Morschheuser, B. (2023). Is adaptive gamification just a theoretical fairytale? An experiment in a text-based adventure game for data crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Maui, Hawaii, US.
• Wittmann, M., Köhler, L., & Morschheuser, B. (2023). I = Robot: An Investigation of How Perspective Switching Can Support People’s Acceptance of AI-Powered Social Robots. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 2478-2483). Busan, KR.
• Wittmann, M., & Xie, R. (2023). Exploring the metaverse as a catalyst for human-AI collaboration. In Manuel Löwer, Tim Katzwinkel und David Kessing (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference on Gamification and Innovation (pp. 19 - 26). Wuppertal, DE.

2022

• Augenstein, D., & Morschheuser, B. (2022). Understanding human factors in the metaverse - an autonomous driving experiment. In ECIS 2022 Research-in-Progress Papers (pp. 1-8). Timișoara, RO.
• Krath, J., Morschheuser, B., & von Korflesch, H.F. (2022). Designing gamification for sustainable employee behavior: Insights on employee motivations, design features and gamification elements. In Tung X. Bui (Eds.), Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 1594−1603). Maui, HI, US.
• Morschheuser, P.C., Alt, R., Sachse, S., & Morschheuser, B. (2022). Gamifying sustainable behavior at work: Results from an experiment with a corporate gamification app. In R. A. Buchmann, G. C. Silaghi, D. Bufnea, V. Niculescu, G. Czibula, C. Barry, M. Lang, H. Linger, & C. Schneider (Eds.), Information Systems Development: Artificial Intelligence for Information Systems Development and Operations. Cluj-Napoca, RO.
• Riar, M., Morschheuser, B., Zarnekow, R., & Hamari, J. (2022). Gamification of cooperation: A framework, literature review and future research agenda. International Journal of Information Management, 67(102549). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102549
• Wittmann, M., & Morschheuser, B. (2022). What do games teach us about designing effective human-AI cooperation? - A systematic literature review and thematic synthesis on design patterns of non-player characters. In Mila Bujić, Jonna Koivisto, Juho Hamari (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International GamiFIN Conference (pp. 95−104). Tampere, FI, FI: CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

2021

• Oberdörfer, S., Heidrich, D., Birnstiel, S., & Latoschik, M.E. (2021). Measuring the effects of virtual environment design on decision-making. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2021 (pp. 442-443). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

2020

• Riar, M., Morschheuser, B., Hamari, J., & Zarnekow, R. (2020). How game features give rise to altruism and collective action? Implications for cultivating cooperation by gamification. In Tung X. Bui (Eds.), Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 695−704). Maui, HI, US.