Beschreven wordt een onderzoek naar een oplossing op welke manier Rotterdam Ahoy betrokkenheid moet creëren bij Rotterdam Games Week. De aanleiding was dat Nederland een groeiende interesse heeft in de e-sportsmarkt en Rotterdam Ahoy hierop inspeelt door Rotterdam Games Week te organiseren. De content …

In deze scriptie is onderzocht hoe er een serious game kan worden ontwikkeld voor innovatiemanagers om de bekendheid voor serious games te vergroten. 

Sedentary behavior in children (> 4 years of age) has increased over the last decades, resulting in a decline of physical skills. This leaves children prone to health risks such as obesity, mental depression, a lower self-esteem, and social exclusion. The risks increase particularly in children who develop …

When engaging in social interaction, people rely on their ability to reason about unobservable mental content of others, which includes goals, intentions, and beliefs. This so-called theory of mind ability allows them to more easily understand, predict, and influence the behavior of others. People even …

What kind of serious games dealing with climate change are out there? Do these types of games share similar quality levels across borders? The purpose of this article is to carry out a comparative quality assessment of games produced in two different countries: United States and Spain. For this purpose, …

In this thesis, we develop mathematical models for the optimal deployment of security forces addressing two main challenges: adaptive behavior of the adversary and uncertainty in the model. We address several security applications and model them as agent-intruder games. The agent represents the security …

Tijdens de Nie-conferentie 2019 is de We-Energy gespeeld met een aantal geïnteresseerde bezoekers. Naast het presenteren en het spelen van deze serious game heeft dr. T. Ouariachi Peralta een presentatie verzorgd over Serious Games in de energiesector.

Video games have the potential to educate and engage people—especially young people—in climate change and energy issues by facilitating the development of helpful thoughts, feelings, and actions. The objective of the present article is to propose a set of game attributes that could maximise the cognitive, …