Game World: A Research on How the Effect of Gamification can be Measured with the Use of the Real World - Game World Continuum

Gamification in the work environment has been extensively researched and implemented successfully by integrating game elements (such as competition, challenge or exploration) in a work environment. The Persuasive Game Design (PGD) model explains the effect of gamification by differentiating the Real World (RW) from a Game World (GW). A game...

Move On: Designing a persuasive game for arm and hand rehabilitation

Move On is a graduation project which is focused on redesigning the HandsOn game, a therapeutic game for arm-hand rehabilitation which is developed at Roessingh Research and Development (RRD). The HandOn game is a ‘mixed reality’, i.e. a video game played by interacting with physical objects. It trains grasping and horizontal reaching movements...

Diastole Systole: Designing a gamified online health ckeck platform, that persuades users to improve their lifestyle with tailor made challenges and humorous characters

This project is originated from a starting business relationship between &ranj and NIPED, under the management of &Samhoud. In this project &ranj is in the task of gamifying the Persoonlijke Gezondheidscheck (PGC), an online health check platform designed by NIPED, to better persuade their users to change their behaviour and improve...

Taming Esortra: Design of a persuasive game that motivates osteoarthritis patients to exercise - by means of designed narrative game-elements using big data

Taming Esortra is a persuasive game for people diagnosed with osteoarthritis. The two most important symptoms of osteoarthritis are pain and joint stiffness; making it hard and painful for patients to exercise. However, exercise is important and can actually stop the osteoarthritis from getting worse. Taming Esortra uses narrative game-elements...

Play with your hood: Creating mobile game challenges to foster social interactions in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods

Ethnically diverse neighbourhoods often lack in social cohesion. This means that people of different ethnic backgrounds often do not mingle with people outside their cultural circle, which leads into a poor public social experience. PhD student Francisco Xavier Fonseca has been developing a localized mobile game aimed at teenagers called Secrets...

A game about safety culture: creating awareness among healthcare professionals about culture and behaviour regarding patient safety through serious gaming

The start of this project is a first version of a serious game that was designed by the company MEDD. This is an independent design and consultancy agency for healthcare. They designed this game as part of their ‘Met Elkaar Durven Doen’ toolbox, which they use in trainings and workshops. The Haga Hospital is the co-design partner of the game,...

Playfully Cracking Cultures

Cultural differences in the business world are often met with surprise and irritation. The aim of this graduation project was to create a persuasive game design that teaches managers in an international context how to work with cultural differences. For this, the game makes use of the the cultural theoretical model that was created by Fons...

Engaging Tool to Increase Food-related Literacy of People with Low Socioeconomic Status

The goal of this project is to increase the food literacy of people with low socioeconomic status by conveying food knowledge in an enjoyable, indirect, and unforced way. This master thesis proposes a mobile game which enables the target group to receive food literacy and report their diet through gameplay. The game is about dragon raising; it...

Validating the effect of the persuasive game design principle simulation on attitude change for multi-actor decision-making

Persuasive games have great properties for facilitating lasting attitude change for complex societal issues, making them a valuable tool for achieving attitude change towards cooperation and information sharing that is often necessary for effective multi-actor decision-making. It is assumed that persuasive game design principles are key drivers...

Design a passenger-centric interaction for hand luggage boarding experience

This thesis report is about redesigning the passenger boarding interaction for ensuring efficient boarding and a better experience. First, preliminary research including literature review and field study was conducted to gain the basic knowledge of a passenger's boarding experience (What is to be found in theory and real-life?). Following from...

Sailors in Motion: A persuasive game to stimulate physical exercise among employees with low socioeconomic status

The aim of this graduation project is to increase physical exercise of employees with low socio economic status (SES) by engaging them in a health intervention. Individuals with low SES often negatively influence their health by having an unhealthy lifestyle. This lifestyle causes the individual problems and non-communicable diseases (NCD),...

Space Mission Sanitas: Integrating physical activity into the daily life of cardiac patients - A persuasive game during rehabilitation

Space Mission Sanitas is a game-based health intervention to help cardiac patients maintain their physical activity level after cardiac rehabilitation. Often people find it hard to maintain their physical activity level after cardiac rehabilitation. They face different barriers that lower their motivation, resulting in an unhealthy lifestyle...