Mon, 16.07.2018

Serious Games

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jannicke Baalsrud-Hauge

KTH Stockholm, Sweden

 
Serious games have become an important tool in education of engineers as well as to support a dialogue between the different stakeholders (users like teachers and students, developers, publishers, ICT providers). These games allow the participants the possibility to use co-creative approaches for developing new serious games, and train their understanding of a given problem as well as improve their coordination skills.
 
Within the lecture, we will introduce and discuss serious games as a concept to support decision makers in logistics. To this end, we will particularly focus on the bullwhip effect and discuss the impact of serious games on learning. Moreover, we consider mixed reality environments and design new serious games.

Short profile

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge is head of the BIBA GamingLAB and works as a senior researcher at Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik (BIBA) Bremen, Germany. She is also associate professor for Production Logistics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
 
From 2001 to 2003 she worked as a research scientist at the University of Bremen, with her main responsibility beeing the functional architecture of an e-commerce software. 2003 she joined BIBA, where she is responsible for the BIBA Gaming LAB as well as coordination of the BIBA contribution in several national and international projects in the field of Serious Gaming as well as ICT in production and supply chain networks and CPS. This group works specifically on how to improve engineering education and life-long training using game based learning and gamification of production and logistics content.
 
In 2015 she also joined KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), as co-director of the GaPSLabs, where she is managing EIT Digital projects (industry driven projects) and game related research projects funded by the EU on transport, logistics mobility and ICT. Since 2016 she has been working in the new division on sustainable production development. Here focus is here ICT in production logistics and experiential learning. She is program director for the master on applied logistics.
 
Besides supervising BSc, Master and PhD students, she is teaching SG application development, re-engineering, decision making and supply chain risk management. Her main topics are on development of SG and simulation applications, development of GBL concepts, Requirements engineering (IT solutions for logistics, CPS and SG), process analysis and business modelling. Jannicke is member of several boards and has authored 200+ papers.