Title: Are serious games too serious? Diffusion of wearable technologies and the creation of a diffusion of serious games model - talk given by Ton Spil
- Abstract: Today globally, more people die from chronic diseases than from war and terrorism. This is not due to aging alone but also because we lead unhealthy lifestyles with little or no exercise and typically consume food with poor nutritional content. This talk proffers the design science research method to create an artefact that can help people study the diffusion of serious games. The ultimate goal of the study is to create a serious game that can help people to improve their balance in physical exercise, nutrition and well-being.
- Bio: Ton Spil teaches in the area of Business & Information Technology. He did his PhD thesis on the effectiveness of information strategies and after that, he specialized in the application area of healthcare and professional organizations. He is track chair e-health in main conferences (AMCIS and HICSS) and published on ISI A level. He was (guest) editor of JSIS and associate editor of several health journals. In 2021 his main topics are adoption of IT, business modeling, serious gaming and digital strategies applied on (tele)health, music and banking. He creates digital strategies for (social) media & health. His new book is called “Digital Future” and the Dutch version will be released in 2021.
Title: The effect of operational features on drone-assisted delivery - talk given by Giovanni Campuzano
- Abstract: Recent advances in artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles have contributed to the development of new technologies to substantially improve last-mile delivery systems. Naturally, due to the combination of their mobility, speed and ability to work in collaboration with other transportation means, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones have shown great versatility being particularly useful in crowded cities. As a result, companies have placed their interest in these autonomous vehicles investing in promising projects, for example, Amazon's in Air Prime project, Google's Wing project, DHL in Parcelocopter, Walmart and FedEx among others. However, there is still a great deal of unknown regarding operational features when facing daily implementation problems. In this context, we study the Traveling Salesman problem with drone, nowadays a hot topic in urban logistics, and incorporate features, such as weather conditions, payload and energy consumption. In addition, we present a study on the effect on the efficiency of the delivery system when allowing the drone to fly at lower speeds to decrease energy consumption.
- Bio: Giovanni Campuzano is a Chilean Ph.D. student, at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems (IEBIS). University of Twente, the Netherlands. His thesis project is focused on last-mile multi-modal delivery problems. In particular, he studies transportation problems in which vehicles perform independent tasks (e.g., drones, robots, vans, and trucks) and face operational aspects, such as weather conditions, traffic congestion, time windows, service times, among others.