Chanua: A serious game for engaging young girls from a low-resource setting of Kenya in STEM education

The island of Lamu is a part of an archipelago in Kenya’s southeast. In comparison to other parts of Kenya and the rest of the globe, it is a remote and rural area where residents do not have the same access to contemporary educational materials. The Kenya Red Cross Society’s IOMe005 Innovation Hub attempts to combat these disparities by...

New Data Sources in Road Infrastructure Management: A game-based experiment into the effects of new data sources on condition assessment and decision-making within the operations and maintenance phase of asphalt paved road infrastructures

Professionals in the Operations and Maintenance phase of national road <br/>infrastructure projects are making decisions with large consequences based on low frequency measurements and subjectivity prone expert observations. A solution is expected in sensor innovations, IoT and User Generated Data to generate more frequent measurements and less...

Personalized adaptive dentist game

The goal of this project was to develop a personalized adaptive game for use at the dentist or other dental treatment settings. Before the project started, a prototype game utilising the Unity game engine was alreadyavailable. The game’s purpose is to make dental treatment more comfortable by playing it during the treatment.Our goal for this...

Towards explaining the impact of serious gaming on readiness to change: A mixed method research approach for determining what game components of a serious game are of added value to impacting organizational readiness to change

Despite the growing interest in the business world as well as the academic world for serious gaming, significant knowledge gaps remain to be researched; one of which concerns the development of unified formalized methods to analyze serious games in order to explain the nature of the impact they promise in organizational change processes. For...

The contribution of serious gaming to the Negotiated Approach: Applying game design to groundwater management in Khulna, Bangladesh

As alternative to IWRM, the Negotiated Approach is proposed to involve communities in groundwater management. This should increase water security in peri-urban Khulna, in Bangladesh. A serious game is desired to make the approach more accessible and support its collective learning process. With interviews, different parts in the process that...

The decision support environment for energy transition: What are the benefits of combining a qualitative serious game and a quantitative decision support tool in order to provide necessary insights for the key stakeholders?

This research proposes a decision support environment to assist the main stakeholders (The Municipality, Consumers, Network operators, Energy providers and Technology enablers) during the energy transition decision making process at city level. The research is a part of the TRANSFORM project’s work package three. The TRANSFORM project develops a...

Sustainable tourism simulation in Norway

The tourism sector of Norway is one of the sectors that aim for sustainability and is the subject of an ambitious project. With an estimated 5% of the total global CO2 emissions coming from tourism, this is a good sector to examine for improvements in sustainability. The tourism sector in combination with the government started the project...

Designing a game for online burnout therapy

This MSc. Thesis was a collaboration between the Delft University of Technology, the University of Amsterdam and Interapy. Interapy is a psycho-therapeutic institution successfully applying online burnout therapy. Their internet treatment only includes textual contact with their patients and they wanted to extend this contact with a game-based...

Realising Transformation through Simulation: A universal indicator for transformation by using serious gaming

Municipalities in the Netherlands are required to improve the quality of the public services and become more accessible through the internet. Theory on transformation says that to acquire that goal these government organisations must transform their organisational structure to become more process and chain based. A lot of municipalities appear...

Culture Driven Game Design Method: Adapting serious games to the players' culture

Serious games are an important tool in creating, explaining, building, deploying and evaluating solutions for complex multi-actor problems. The Indian electricity challenge is such a complex multi-actor problem which forms the content of the Indian Electricity Game. To become a success it is necessary that serious games, like the Indian...

Dynamic Gubbar System: Support tool for exercises in disaster management logistics

The goal of disaster management is to deploy the scarce amount of resources as effectively as possible. Exercises are needed, because disasters occur seldom while the logistical chain of disaster management is very complex. Currently the two most important support tools for these are EmergoTrain System (from Swedish institute KMC) and ISEE (from...