Over de specifieke eisen die gesteld worden aan het schrijven voor een videogame en de problemen en uitdagingen die men tegenkomt door de enorm snelle ontwikkelingen in de techniek in deze sector

De aanleiding voor dit ontwerponderzoek is de berichtgeving over de vele studenten die kampen met stressklachten. Als stress chronisch wordt kan dit uiteindelijk leiden tot studievertraging, stoppen met de studie of een burn-out. Stress hoort bij het leven, een klein beetje stress is soms zelfs goed …

Aim: Improvement and harmonization of European clinical pharmacology and thera peutics (CPT) education is urgently required. Because digital educational resources can be easily shared, adapted to local situations and re-used widely across a variety of educational systems, they may be ideally suited for …

Education is a key factor to respond to the threat of climate change, increasing not only knowledge but also encouraging changes in attitudes and behaviors to adopt sustainable lifestyles. Scholars and practitioners in the field of education call for innovative ways of engaging youth—a reason why gamification …

In 2017 zijn er in Nederland tussen de 90.000 en 127.000 kinderen en jongeren van 0 tot 18 jaar blootgesteld aan een vorm van kindermishandeling. Deze cijfers laten zien dat kindermishandeling een onderwerp is dat binnen Nederland, maar ook in de gehele wereld, een groot complex probleem is. Naar aanleiding …

Socially aware persuasive games that use immersive technologies often appeal to empathy, prompting users to feel and understand the struggles of another. However, the often sought-after standing in another's shoes' experience, in which users virtually inhabit another in distress, may complicate other-oriented …

BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) is important for children with a chronic disease. Serious games may be useful to promote PA levels among these children. OBJECTIVE: The primary purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of serious games on PA levels in children with a chronic …

README.first is a bilingual collection of mini-essays, published in the run up to the Plokta filmfestival. We’ve asked writers, researchers, theorists, artists, programmers, and others to pick an online video that functions as a stepping stone for their thought and practice and to comment shortly on …

Game-based learning (GBL) is an interactive form of training in which instructional elements are combined with motivational elements within one GBL-environment. Under the right circumstances, GBL can contribute to both learning and motivation. It is, however, unclear which elements in the design of GBL-environments …

Rook is playful data visualization device aiming at the dissemination of air quality data. The Rook unit accesses the database of the Hollandse Luchten (henceforth HL) project, which collects data on air quality in Nord-Holland via a network of sensor kits distributed to the local population and displays …