Gamification versus Serious Games
08/04/2013
A little poster I made for the Innovatie Markt comparing the utility of gamification strategies against that of serious games in relation to different purposes, according to their own characteristics. I would like to add that of course serious games and gamification are not so clearly cut out, and in many classifications of serious games […]
Blues Buddies at Innovation Market
22/03/2013
Next week Blues Buddies is going to be present in the annual Innovation Event by the Amsterdam Innovation Board on April 4. The Innovatiemarkt is a platform where startups and small businesses focusing on innovation can present their work to the city. See you at the Convention Factory, Amsterdam! From 14:30 to 18:00.
Startup Weekend Enschede
18/03/2013
Another great experience at the Startup Weekend, this time in Enschede, Netherlands, first prize with the fantastic project Moving Story, this is the happy team. Startup Weekend is a business course, a teamwork course and a pitch course all rolled into one, and the crunching is always great fun, is it weird to love […]
CHI 2013
10/02/2013
It seems that one of my papers was accepted at an exciting workshop on gamification called Designing Gamification: Creating Gameful and Playful Experiences at the CHI conference 2013. A similar workshop that took place two years ago had an enormous impact in redefining what is gamification and its “good” opponent, gamefulness and gameful design, so […]
Health 2.0 Amsterdam
22/11/2012
To keep the momentum from Health 2.0 Berlin, I was suggested to present Blues Buddies again to the satellite event in Amsterdam, you can find the meetup group here. Health 2.0 Amsterdam offers a series of stimulating events and gathers people from media and healthcare to discuss the coming healthcare revolution and its issues like […]
Blues Buddies, landing page
05/11/2012
After the demo, now there is a landing page to receive updates about Blues Buddies, at http://www.bluesbuddies.org
Depression and other Unmentionables
13/10/2012
Playful Pandas is going to present a demo of Blues Buddies at the great conference Health 2.0 in Berlin, November 6 and 7. This presentation will happen inside the track “Unmentionables: sexual health, mental health, addictions, and other “unmentionables””. It is flattering to be in such good company :). Jokes aside, this track reminds me why an […]
Poster and pitch in the Appsterdam tent at Picnic
21/09/2012
In the last days it was great fun to give a hand in the organization of the Appsterdam tent in front of the Picnic conference, great atmosphere and quite a lot of balloons! And there was a poster of Blues Buddies, and a last minute pitch in front of Mike Lee and other influential individuals. […]
Introducing Blues Buddies
02/08/2012
Last week I went to visit some friends at the iOSDevCamp at Bouncespace in Amsterdam, and while watching the others prepare to pitch, I felt like doing it too; there was this idea on the back of my mind for a long time, how to connect people who needed support but couldn’t find it among their peers. […]
In the winning team at Startup Weekend Eindhoven
14/06/2012
Finally yours truly was in the winning team of Startup Weekend Eindhoven, with the social app Meals2Meet, article in Dutch, boy was I sleepy 😀