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- Motivação do utilizador numa aplicação de turismo através da gamificaçãoPublication . PEYVAND, KAZEM; Alves, Patrícia Raquel de Jesus Araújo; Marreiros, Maria Goreti CarvalhoUser motivation is crucial to the effectiveness of tourism recommender systems. These systems face challenges such as the cold-start problem and the intrusive collection of data through questionnaires. Gamification emerges as an effective solution, fostering engagement and natural interaction with the application. This dissertation presents the integration of gamification techniques into an Android mobile application of a Group Recommender System (GRS) for tourism, developed within the scope of the Accelerate & Transform Tourism (ATT) project, namely the integration of serious games previously developed in Unity, which implicitly collect personality traits based on the Big Five model. The core contribution lies in developing dedicated Android screens to launch these games, retrieving personality data through JSON exchanges, and presenting detailed trait breakdowns via interactive popups. To address the cold-start problem and the challenge of collecting reliable user data without intrusive questionnaires, the proposed system uses serious games as an implicit personality profiling tool. The captured personality traits are then used to personalize (group) recommendations for tourism activities and points of interest. The results demonstrate the feasibility of integrating Unity-based games within an Android environment, managing data exchange, and providing users with transparent, gamified feedback on their profiles. The final prototype shows how gamification can increase user participation, enrich user data collection, and enhance the overall user experience in digital tourism applications.