Bachelor Assignment

This bachelor assignment is an assignment for the Humanitarian Engineering research group at the University of Twente. In this thesis a serious game is designed to educate students of the minor Fundamentals of Humanitarian Engineering about the importance of incorporating social justice principles in technology development projects for underserved communities.

The designed serious game is an analogue role-playing game, where the players represent different stakeholders. These stakeholders have to make decisions about a Humanitarian Engineering project in Tanzania. In the end there is an evaluation in which the players are asked though-provoking questions. Which require the players to reflect on whether they incorporated social justice principles, such as inclusive participation, while playing the serious game and whether and how they could have done this better.