Persuasive games exist for a wide variety of objectives, from marketing, to healthcare and activism. Some of the more socially-aware ones cast players as members of disenfranchised minorities, such as migrants, prompting them to 'see what they see'. In parallel, a growing number of designers has recently …

Interview with the Danish-Faroese musician and artist Goodiepal (Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester).

© Springer International Publishing AG 2016. A serious game needs to combine a number of different aspects to help the end user in reaching the desired effects. This requires incorporating a broad range of different aspects in the design, stemming from a broad range of different fields of expertise. …

Urban environments are full of noise and obstacles, and therefore potentially dangerous and difficult to navigate for the visually impaired. Using Bluetooth beacons and a smartphone app we guide them through these environments by providing the information needed for that specific location. We present …

This chapter discusses educational aspects and possibilities of serious games. For researchers as well as game designers we describe key learning theories to ground their work in theoretical framework. We draw on recent metareviews to offer an exhaustive inventory of known learning and affective outcomes …

In this chapter, we propose an ethical framework for serious game design, which we term the Ecosystem for Designing Games Ethically (EDGE). EDGE expands on Zagal’s categorization of ethical areas in game design by incorporating the different contexts of design and their use. In addition, we leverage …

Vanuit wettelijk oogpunt is het een financiële instelling toegestaan om werkzaamheden uit te besteden aan derden, zolang wordt voldaan aan de verplichtingen die de toezichthouders opleggen. Cloud-diensten kennen verschillende implementatiemodellen waardoor minstens 12 varianten ontstaan. In iedere …

The storage of large amounts of network data is a challenging problem, in particular if it still needs to be actively consulted as for example in the case of network forensics. Here we propose a method to compress NetFlow data while simultaneously adding domain knowledge. Our method is based on a pattern …

De doelstelling van de opdracht is het verwezenlijken van een IaaS proof of concept gebaseerd op het OpenStack platform. Het proof of concept moet met zo min mogelijk kosten worden opgezet. Bij elke keuze moeten de kosten in gedachten worden gehouden. Als hardware moeten de oude servers worden gebruikt …

Participatory data collection relies on the commitment of the participants to report data continuously, which makes providing incentives to people crucial. In this case study, we describe how we designed a web app by using different incentive mechanisms to collect participatory data for monitoring community …