Projects
MapFlux: Bridging the Gap Between Paper-based Maps and Their Digital Counterparts Hasselt University
Design of Cultural Heritage Experiences for Digital Tourism KU Leuven
Children's rights and the monetisation of play in the digital environment Ghent University
Children all over the world are spending increasing periods of time engaged in play and creative activities in the digital environment. These playful experiences are increasingly monetised, exposing children to significant commercial and privacy risks. This project will focus on three levels of monetisation of play: (1) encouraging children to spend money (e.g. in-app purchases); (2) capitalising on personal data (e.g. targeted advertising) ...
Fair Play? An Investigation of Player Attitudes, Purchase Behavior and Ethics Surrounding Microtransactions in Digital Games Ghent University
The research addresses the topic of microtransactions in digital games. Microtransactions refer to in-game purchases of additional downloadable content and/or virtual goods that can extend or enhance the player’s experience in a game. This monetization strategy has important advantages for players, as they allow game companies to keep the initial prices of their games low (or even offer their games for free) and players only pay for ...
High-resolution slide scanner for digital histopathological phenotyping in health and disease. University of Antwerp
Digital innovation for man and society Ghent University
The IDC “The Digital Human” tackles the societal and ethical challenges of the digitization. The consortium functions as a center of expertise on the long-term effects of digital innovation processes, and cooperates with users, policy makers, law makers, entrepreneurs and the general public to translate its insights to concrete measures for sustainable technological innovation.
On Digital Schooling: An ethnographic investigation of BYOD schools through a sociomaterial lens KU Leuven
Hard drive philology. A genetic analysis of the literary writing process by means of Thomas Kling's poetical estate as a case study in digital forensics Ghent University
In the course of this project, the literary writing process and strategy of the German poet Thomas Kling (1957-2005) will be investigated, including manuscripts, digital born documents and traces recovered from his harddrives in the archive. The study will make use of digital forensic tools and methods to extend the range of textual genetic philology, archival studies and scholarly editions.