Creating the perfect outdoor game experience

What if you mix (indoor) gaming with outdoor play? Nowadays children spend much more time indoor instead of outside, playing with friends. Outdoor play is good for both physical as mental development of children, and this problem was the foundation of this design project. Two years ago the idea was risen by Auke Ferwerda to develop an outdoor...

Guntroller + Perivision: Enhancing The Experience of Video Games

Vogel’s is market leader in Europe for the business of placement and mounts for audio and video equipment. Always looking for opportunities to expand their market, they have started developing accessories for the gaming industry. In order to become a serious player in the market for gaming accessories Vogel’s wants to gain knowledge of gaming...

Using gaming as a data collection tool to design rules for agents in agent-based models - A design framework.

Agent-based modelling is a popular and suitable tool for exploring the possible states of so-called socio-technical systems. These systems consist of both technical artefacts (the physical infrastructure, e.g. pipelines), and many social artefacts (relevant actors and institutions, e.g. end-users and governments), which are intertwined with each...

Simulating the ERP Implementation Process: Development of a Management Flight Simulator

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a comprehensive set of integrated software solutions. It is used for example to allow companies to improve their performance by streamlining business processes and to manage the companies’ resources. An ERP system incorporates a central database that supports the various functions of a company by...

Dealing with Investment Uncertainties in the European Natural Gas Market: A Stochastic Equilibrium Model for the European Natural Gas Market

New developments in the gas market urge public and private concerns to gain deeper insight into how this market is functioning. The Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), as a leading research institute, has developed a deterministic model representing the European gas market called GASTALE. Based on this model, this research has been...

Using Serious Gaming To Make Operations Safer On Anchor Handling Tugs

To an observer, it might appear that anchor handling is a fairly simple straightforward and profit making business. However, with deep-water drilling and fluctuations in price of oil, the operation is becoming riskier than ever before. Besides, operational and environmental constraints, the crew also has to deal with pressures of time and money....

Evaluating cooperation policies for rail utilization in the port to hinterland freight transport system: A combined method approach

As the margins for improvements in the current freight transport system become limited, researchers address more and more the importance of collaboration between the actors which is crucial for the implementation of new, more efficient transport concepts as synchromodality. In addition, rail is concerned as a sustainable mode of transport that...