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 …

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, …

Presentation: “A comparative quality assessment between Spanish and American serious games on climate change

Het doel van SteenGoed is om beleidsmakers, eigenaren en beheerders rondom de Gelderse hoogwatervrije terreinen handelingsperspectieven te bieden om afgewogen keuzes te maken omtrent (her)ontwikkeling van deze terreinen op korte, middellange en lange termijn. Hierbij wordt een integrale aanpak gehanteerd …

More and more people suffer from age-related eye conditions, e.g. Macular Degeneration. One of the problems experienced by these people is navigation. A strategy shown by many juvenile visually impaired persons (VIPs) is using auditory information for navigation. Therefore, it is important to train age-related …

In het tweede studiejaar van de opleiding Business Studies van Inholland is gebruik gemaakt van de businessgame T-Challenge. Uit de evaluatie van de procesgang en ervaren (leer)effecten van deze game blijkt dat dit instrument in potentie een krachtige leeromgeving is, maar dat het realiseren van gewenste …

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Aandacht voor seksuele en reproductieve gezondheid en daaraan verbonden rechten is belangrijk bij de preventie en aanpak van seksueel geweld. Wie zijn of haar rechten goed kent, is weerbaarder. In dit themanummer van PROCES staat de blik op het buitenland centraal. We hebben ons oor te luisteren gelegd …

Serious games foster the acquisition of complex problem-solving skills. Assessment of such skills should be in line with instruction, and within a serious game environment its content validity should equal face-to-face assessment. Research on assessment in serious gaming has remained rather scarce. This …

© 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. …