Professional and academic education increasingly use realistic, rich, safe and interactive tools such as serious gaming. In our case we have used a serious game to teach students how socio-economic and technological opportunities and challenges could shape sustainable businesses in a circular economy. …

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, …

Met een 90 tal studenten van de opleiding Built Environment is de We-Energy Game gespeeld. Het doel was om hen kennis te laten maken met de We-Energy Game als serious game en het inzicht in de energietransitie te vergroten.

Met een 50 tal studenten van de opleiding Built Environment is de We-Energy Game gespeeld. Het doel was om hen kennis te laten maken met de We-Energy Game als serious game en het inzicht in de energietransitie te vergroten.

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 …

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, …

In this work, we trace and analyze some production and design choices taken during the developing of Progetto Ustica: a serious game about memory. The game tells the story of the Itavia civilian flight shot down over the Mediterranean Sea, near the island of Ustica, on June 27th, 1980. We aim at discussing …

Afdeling Legale & Illegale Buitenlandse Integratie, A.L.I.B.I., zo luidt de titel van de serious game die Marcel Bloemendaal en Paul Bierhaus van YipYip ontwikkelen in samenwerking met de Hogeschool Rotterdam en partners. Het doel van de game: voorkomen dat kinderen met autismespectrum-problemen vroegtijdig …