“Risk Management Can Actually Be Fun”: Using the Serious Cards for Biosafety Game to Stimulate Proper Discussions About Biosafety

As part of a Dutch Science Foundation project called T-TRIPP, the authors developed the serious game Cards for Biosafety. The aim of Cards for Biosafety is to let young biotechnology researchers learn more about biosafety. Analyses of workshops with researchers from the biotechnology domain as well as results of interviews with several biosafety...

Improving Reactions to Rejection in Crowdsourcing through Self-Reflection

In popular crowdsourcing marketplaces like Amazon Mechanical Turk, crowd workers complete tasks posted by requesters in return for monetary rewards. Task requesters are solely responsible for deciding whether to accept or reject submitted work. Rejecting work can directly affect the monetary reward of corresponding workers, and indirectly...

The Real-Time Learning Tracker: Real-Time Learner Feedback for Encouraging Self-Regulation & Metacognition in MOOCS

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to make quality education affordable and available to the masses and reduce the gap between the most privileged and the most disadvantaged learners worldwide. However, this potential is overshadowed by low completion rates, often below 15%. Due to the high level of autonomy that is required...

Bubo: A serious game to help students in finding a suitable internship

Yubu B.V., for whom the graduation project is carried out, provides a career orientation method (called Yubu) for high schools that uses serious games to motivate students to focus on choosing a study. Making decisions concerning a career is not something that stops after high school and therefore Yubu B.V. has taken interest in offering a...

The Learning Tracker: A Learner Dashboard that Encourages Self-regulation in MOOC Learners

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to make quality education affordable and available to the masses and reduce the gap between the most privileged and the most disadvantaged learners worldwide. However, this potential is overshadowed by low completion rates, often below 15%. Due to the high level of autonomy that is required...

Reflective Healthcare Systems: Micro-Cycle of Self-Reflection to empower users

Data collection and reflection are considered an integrated process in Personal Informatics to help users take action towards changing behaviour. Facilitating the collection and visualization of large data sets has been a major technical challenge to guarantee meaningful and effortless information to users. However this focus results in a...

Bluebook: An interactive journal for the emotional well-being of prostate cancer patients

Cancer. Probably one of the most feared words when discussing your or a loved one’s health. It is needless to say that the diagnosis of cancer has a big impact on people. The diagnosis and treatment can cause a disruption in their emotional well-being, which can also distress their family and friends. This graduation project eventually focused...

Elicitation of situated values: Need for tools to help stakeholders and designers to reflect and communicate

Explicitly considering human values in the design process of socio-technical systems has become a responsibility of designers. It is, however, challenging to design for values because (1) relevant values must be identified and communicated between all stakeholders and designers and (2) stakeholders’ values differ and trade-offs must be made. We...