In this chapter, the authors elaborate on serious games and playful interactions in modern scientific practices, and on the way they can engender mutual scientific growth. They use a research-through-design approach, in which three possible scenarios and prototypes are studied to envisage the new role …

Cozmo is a real-life robot designed to interact with people playing games, making sounds, expressing emotions on a LCD screen and many other pre-programmable functions. We present the development and implementation of an educational platform for Cozmo mobile robot, with several features, including web …

In dit verslag wordt het onderzoek naar de voorwaarden voor een bruikbare, toegankelijke en persuasieve serious game voor slechtzienden van veertig jaar en ouder beschreven. Serious games worden op veel verschillende manieren ingezet en kunnen ook een bijdrage leveren aan de behandeling mobiliteit en …

Energy transition is key to achieving a sustainable future. However, in this transition, an often neglected pillar is raising awareness and educating individuals on the benefits, complexities, and urgency of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency. This paper exemplifies an educational practice …

Videogames have become educational, communicative and social tools among the young, favouring the acquisition of skills, abilities and values, encompassing an endless number of themes, and helping them to experience and to face, in the first person, a great diversity of environmental situations and ecology …

Introduction Over the past years, health games have shown to be an effective method for providing patient-education. At the same time, physical activity as medicine is increasingly popular when stimulating health in patients. Especially for those who are inactive and have a chronic disease, these two …

A commonality in socially-aware persuasive games is the strategy to appeal to empathy, as a means to have players feel and understand the struggles of another. This is particularly evident in the expanding use of immersive technologies, lauded for its ability to have players more literally 'stand in …

There is an urgent need to curb emissions and mitigate climate change, and this fight requires a change in teenagers’ attitudes. In search of new approaches targeting youth, online games are seen as a promising tool for communication and education. Using the serious game 2020 Energy as a case study, …

Met de komst van de tablet in de logopedische behandeling zijn nieuwe mogelijkheden ontstaan om therapie voor kinderen met taalontwikkelingsstoornissen (TOS) vorm te geven. Logopedisten hebben echter veel vragen over het gebruik van tabletgames. Hoe kun je tabletgames zinvol inzetten? Gaat het gamen …

Stichting Sport en Transplantatie is een non-profit-sportaanbieder die transplantatiepatiënten na een ziekenhuisopname weer op een gezonde manier aan de samenleving wil laten deelnemen door het aanbieden van recreatieve en sportieve activiteiten. Daarnaast vaardigt SET iedere twee jaar een delegatie …