What happened to our surveys?
On Thursday I was in Bern to share the first research insights with Carol Schafroth from the Campus for Democracy Michael Erne from smartvote. …
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Last Thursday I paid a visit to the Republik magazine. The reason: Someone has had the same idea as me. After the meeting we can say: Two “super-likes” & “it’s a Match”! Together with the Head of IT Thomas Preusse, Software Engineer Patrick Venetz and my Mentor René Bauer we talked about the process, the similarities and the differences of our concepts.
In any case, I am happy that the combination of games and political communication is well received by the public.
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In various settings – from a park bench next to the Limmat, to a student kitchen in Lausanne – I collected first responses to our application. The five test sessions took 15-30 minutes each. …
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On June 21, I visited Liip AG in their Zurich office at the Limmat. I met one of Liip’s co-founders and SP candidate for the national council, Hannes Gassert. He is dedicated to creating digital applications, which are designed in the best interest of the end-user. …
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This Weekend I was in Lausanne for a hackathon by ‘Le Temps’. During two days we worked on game concepts for political participation. The event was organized by Paul Ronga, Florian Fischbacher and Laure Dousset. I was in a team with Stéphane Decrey from Operation Libero. …
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The Centre for Democratic Studies Aarau is researching democratic systems, both nationally and internationally, while also doing a lot of work on political education. Stefan Walter and Manuel Hubacher concern themselves with political education in schools, and both use games to create innovative learning experiences. On Friday, June 6 I met them at the ZDA’s Villa Blumenhalde in Aarau. …
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Hans-Peter Hutter ist the Head of Human-Information Interaction and professor in Computer Science at the ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) in Winterthur. On June 5, I met him in their Institute of Applied Information Technology at the Steinberggasse 13. …
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In the afternoon of May 23, I was a guest at inside labs. The tech company works in the intersection between technology, meaning and mind. While doing so, the end-users are always their first priority. …
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Time to pay a visit to the western part of Switzerland! On May 18, I was in Lausanne to meet Elias Farhan, Head of Game Programming at the SAE Institute Genève. …
Continue readingDuring a five day Workshop, we prototyped our masters project from research question to final prototype. From the 11th until the 15th of March, we analysed our projects from various angles in order to specify our vision.
Among other things, one of our tasks was to illustrate our idea with the aid of a physical model.
You are waiting at a tram station and are greeted by broad smiles and beaming faces:
“I am competent, vote for me!” Very convincing. But that hairdo looks weird. …
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