Posterpresentatie USE Conferentie 2015.

Exergames, as one might infer from the name, are a combination of exercise and games. As such, they stimulate players to perform certain behaviours by providing them with engaging game mechanics (Whitehead, Johnston, Nixon, & Welch, 2010). While they can be used during physiotherapeutic rehabilitation …

Presentatie in de 3D-carrousel over proefschrift Spel tussen amusement en kunst - de verbeelding van cultuur in games, en de relatie met (de activiteiten van) het lectoraat User Centered Design van het Instituut voor Communicatie, Media & IT.

For over thirty years, there has been a discussion about the effectiveness of educational games in comparison to traditional learning materials. To help further this discussion, we aim to understand ‘how educational games work’ by formalising (and visualising) the educational and motivational aspects …

Integrating culture into the behavioural models of virtual characters requires knowledge from very different disciplines such as cross-cultural psychology and computer science. If culture-related behavioural differences are simulated with a virtual character system, users might not necessarily understand …

With the increased adoption of real-time objective measurements of player experience, advances have been made in characterising the dynamically changing aspects of the player experience during gameplay itself. A direct coupling to player action, however, is not without challenges. Many physiological …

This research is about the effect of story on player experience; it aimed to explore the difference between gameplay and story in a player’s experience and strived to measure it. The main problem for this research was one of knowledge; does story affect the player experience? Game creators often wonder …

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Creating agents that are capable of emulating similar socio-cultural dynamics to those found in human interaction remains as one of the hardest challenges of artificial intelligence. This problem becomes particularly important when considering embodied …

De doelstelling is om de HR-professionals en/of lijnmanagers te overtuigen dat een Serious Game een belangrijk en krachtig middel is om de interne communicatie binnen hun bedrijf te verbeteren. De game moet ervoor zorgen dat de HR-professional bewust wordt gemaakt wat een Serious Game is en wordt geprikkeld …

Tijdens de afstudeerperiode heb ik in een periode van 22 weken, volgens de user centered design-methode een online aangiftesysteem voor de fiscale professional ontworpen voor mobiele apparaten.