8D Design & Onderzoek

RESEARCH +

Too often, promising research results go unused. We use design to ensure that your results do have social impact.

DESIGN =

Designers at 8D are not only creative makers; they are also skilled in design thinking, generative action research, co-creation and prototyping.

IMPACT2

In every role we play, our goal is the same: ‘How can we use this project result to improve lives, now and in the future?’

The added value of design-oriented research

Partners national and international

We collaborate with researchers affiliated with and/or funded by:

8D Games - Partners

Creative interventions for people and society

Can virtual reality support healthcare professionals?

VR training for healthcare professionals

It is a situation you don’t really want to think about, but as a healthcare professional you have to be prepared for anyway: resuscitating a newborn baby. In collaboration with Leeuwarden Medical Centre, we are investigating how virtual reality can help teach (and, more importantly, maintain) this skill. The VR training is not intended to replace training, but rather to encourage maintenance of this skill. Professionals can go through the steps and protocols involved in resuscitating a baby more regularly in virtual reality. At a time that suits them, in the most realistic way possible and without the need for group members.

Increasing therapy adherence through gaming: is it possible?

Fall prevention game for the elderly

Increasing therapy adherence through gaming: is it possible? This is what we investigated in collaboration with researchers and specialists from the University Medical Center Groningen. With astonishing results. During prototype playtests, participants exceeded the expected engagement levels with the game, demonstrating its potential to enhance adherence to therapy.

Serious gaming as a research tool

Can you improve interdisciplinary collaboration with a game?

Can persuasive technology – such as a serious game – help promote interdisciplinary collaboration? This is a key research question within the project ‘eZoon’ by the University of Twente. Team 8D Games worked in this research consortium as an advisory and development partner.

“Making something is not the trick. Making the right thing is the real challenge. “

Design Council, creators of the Double Diamond

Our method
Social Design - 8D
8D Design & Research - Whitepapers

Knowledge is not funnel fodder

At least, we think so. Together with partners, we like to create informative white papers and webinars. These are freely available, without leaving contact details. We do like to hear whether our knowledge base has given you new ideas and what information you are still missing as a researcher. 


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Why we employ a therapist, a game designer and a historian

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