Game Mechanics is aimed at game design students and industry professionals who want to improve their understanding of how to design, build, and test the mechanics of a game. Game Mechanics will show you how to design, test, and tune the core mechanics of a game—any game, from a huge role-playing game …

In order for techniques from Model Driven Engineering to be accepted at large by the game industry, it is critical that the effectiveness and efficiency of these techniques are proven for game development. There is no lack of game design models, but there is no model that has surfaced as an industry …

People counting is a challenging task with many applications. We propose a method with a fixed stereo camera that is based on projecting a template onto the depth image. The method was tested on a challenging outdoor dataset with good results and runs in real time.

The way that innovation is currently done requires a new research methodology that enables co-creation and frequent, iterative evaluation in realworld settings. This paper describes the employment of the living lab methodology that corresponds to this need. Particularly, this paper presents the way that …

People suffering from dementia often have problems with way finding and feel restless. In this paper we present an interactive wall developed for decreasing the amount of wandering behaviour of people suffering from dementia. The installation aims at making these people feel more at home in the nursing …

In this paper I investigate the differences between the 960 first year students at the department of Media, Information and Communication (MIC) of the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam (UASA) in their use of new media and their background variables. With statistical test the various variables …

Presentatie gehouden tijdens bijeenkomst Woonstade, Groningen, op 04-11-2011.Over het belang van technologie in de zorg en barrières die de kansen voor technologie in de zorg beperken. De mogelijkheden van multidisciplinaire samenwerking om te komen tot opschaling van eHealth. Focus op domotica. Voorbeelden …

De dominante, zichtbare aanwezigheid van computers is op zijn retour. De technologie die ons eens de computer bracht, raakt verweven in de alledaagse dingen en wordt onopvallend. De gewone dingen worden verrijkt met rekenkracht, krijgen sensoren waardoor ze gevoelig worden voor wat in hun omgeving gebeurt, …

The aim of the present study was to gain a better understanding of the content characteristics that make online consumer reviews a useful source of consumer information. To this end, we content analyzed reviews of experience and search products posted on Amazon.com (N = 400). The insights derived from …

Om talent te ontwikkeling moet er sprake zijn van aanleg (gave). Deze aanleg kan worden ontwikkeld tot talent. Het proces van aanleg tot talent wordt gezien als talentontwikkeling. Op deze ontwikkeling zijn een drietal katalysators van invloed die de ontwikkeling zowel positief als negatief kunnen beïnvloeden. …