I teach in the area of Business Information Systems for MBA and Management of Risk Management and Business and IT. He did his PhD thesis on the effectiveness of information strategies and after that he specialized in the application area healthcare and professional organizations. He is track chair e-health in main conferences and published on ISI A level. He was (guest) editor of JSIS and associate editor of several health journals. In 2019 his main topics are adoption of IT, business modeling, serious gaming and digital strategies applied on (tele)health, music and banking. He creates digital strategies for (social) media & health. His new book is called “Digital Future” and appeared in 2019.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Evaluation
    • Serious Game
    • User
    • Models
    • Design
    • Records
  • Psychology

    • Behavior
    • Gaming

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Publications

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2025

The adoption and diffusion of the International Patient Summary (2025)In Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2025 (pp. 3543-3550) (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences). IEEE. Schippers, D., Spil, T., Stegwee, R., Folmer, E. & Donnelly, S.https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2025.425AI and Music: How do listeners and artists perceive it? An Empirical Study toward the Attitude of Humans to AI Music (2025)In Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2025 (pp. 4086-4095) (Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences). IEEE. Iskandar, K. L., Spil, T. & Bukhsh, F.

2024

Reaching Student Engagement by Balancing Gamification and Challenges in Minor Serious Gaming (2024)In Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Games Based Learning (pp. 766-771) (Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning; Vol. 18). Spil, T. & Hagenaars, P.https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2988Enhancing game-based learning in formal education using simplified game authoring tools: A design science research study (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Assaf, M. H. A.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036561358Introduction to the Minitrack IT Adoption, Diffusion, and Evaluation in Healthcare (2024)Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 57, 3495-3496. Spil, T., Kamis, A. & Bozan, K.

2023

Lifestyle Applications Dimensions Priorities and Features: The Social, Mental and Dynamic Requirements (2023)In Transfer, Diffusion and Adoption of Next-Generation Digital Technologies: IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2023, Nagpur, India, December 15–16, 2023, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 434-444) (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 699). Springer. Spil, T., Sundaram, D. & Groen, J.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50204-0_36The Value of Games (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 17th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2023. Tilvawala, K., Myers, M., Spil, T. & Sundaram, D.Values-Based Transformative Games: From the Physical to the Digital (2023)In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2023 (pp. 683-692) (Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning; Vol. 2023-October). Dechema e.V.. Tilvawala, K., Myers, M., Spil, T. & Sundaram, D.https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.17.1.1724From Bad Habit to Good Habit. How to make lifestyle apps more effective? (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] America's Conference of Information Systems, AMCIS 2023. Tavafchian, N., Spil, T. & Zancanara, M.The Digital Future of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] America's Conference of Information Systems, AMCIS 2023. Spil, T., Mihoci, A., Effing, R. & Kijl, B.Lifestyle game change (2023)In Proceedings of TheIRES International Conference: Wellington, New Zealand, 07th - 08th March, 2023 (pp. 24-29). Institute of Research Engineers and Scientists. Bos, A. & Spil, T.https://worldresearchlibrary.org/proceeding.php?pid=5703ECGBL Preface (2023)European Conference on Games Based Learning, 2023-October, x. Spil, T., Bruinsma, G. & Collou, L.Introduction to the Minitrack on IT Adoption, Diffusion, and Evaluation in Healthcare (2023)In Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 2983-2984). Kapoor, A., Kamis, A., Spil, T. & Bozan, K.

2022

Exploring user profiles for healthy gamification (2022)In 2022 IEEE 10th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health(SeGAH) (pp. 1-7). Article 9978578 (IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH); Vol. 2022). IEEE. Neut, L. v. d., Delden, R. v. & Spil, T.https://doi.org/10.1109/SEGAH54908.2022.9978578Pure Gamification: An Energy Case (2022)In Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Games Based Learning, ECGBL 2022 (pp. 784-792) (Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning; Vol. 16). Academic Conferences International (ACI). van der Neut, L., Spil, T. & van Delden, R.https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.16.1.683

2021

Are serious games too serious? Diffusion of wearable technologies and the creation of a diffusion of serious games model (2021)International journal of information management, 58. Article 102202. Spil, T. A. M., Romijnders, V., Sundaram, D., Wickramasinghe, N. & Kijl, B.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102202

Research profiles

I teach:

Serious Gaming (Minor)

E-strategizing (Master BIT)

ICT for Healthcare (Bachelor GZW)

E-health strategies (Master IEM)

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University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 3420
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Netherlands

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University of Twente

Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 3101
Hallenweg 17
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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