Tag: Games

  • Testing out the co-creation game ATLAS

      On 4th April a group of service designers and service design enthusiasts met up after work to play the service co-creation game ATLAS. The game was made as part of the research project ATLAS, a project executed in 2012-2014 by Aalto University and funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation Tekes. The goal…

  • Digital trends: Will 2018 be the year of Virtual reality?

    Is 2018 going to be the year of Virtual Reality? Jeremy Dalton, the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Lead for PWC, wants to believe, but doesn’t think the public is ready yet. Last week I attended a series of lectures in London about Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (VR) and how companies are using…

  • Citizen participation model and game by City of Helsinki

    Service designers and City of Helsinki employees have developed a new model for citizen participation. One model application is a game that the city service teams, for example in libraries or in health stations, play in order to plan how to increase the participation of their clients. The goal of Helsinki is to become the…

  • Future of Service Design – does it exist?

    Ever thought about this? Is service design just one ism, which comes like a wave: First small, getting strong and then fading away. When reaching the end of its existing curve, the ism is so worn out that no-one even wants to hear the words “service design”. Aalto University Executive Education arranged on the 1st…

  • Gamification: A Quick Introduction

    Gamification: A Quick Introduction

    Games have been always known for their immersive and engaging experiences. These experiences normally challenge players to spend huge amount of time and efforts playing games, in return of gaining that sense of pleasure, mastery and progression that games generate in the player mind. Building on the strength of games, the term gamifiaciton have been…