The Catalysis course is a third-year subject for the students of the Department of Chemistry at Utrecht University. The department approached us to make a serious game to teach students about the Sabatier process, a chemical process that produces water from carbon dioxide and hydrogen, using a catalyst metal. With their design ideas and our…

Guardian360, a Dutch information security SAAS provider, seeks to develop an opensource tool to enhance cybersecurity for small and medium enterprises, freelancers, and private individuals. The project involves creating a lightweight, user-friendly system tray application for Windows that identifies security and privacy weaknesses and provides actionable recommendations. The tool will integrate with the Guardian360 Lighthouse…

The ‘AwARe’-app is a handheld augmented reality (AR) app that can visualize resources needed for food production. Its aim is to give consumers more awareness, understanding and a sense of responsibility towards the ecological impact of their food choices, including food waste. Users can scan a room (for example their kitchen) and create a list…

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, staying abreast of the overwhelming influx of information is a challenge, particularly in the ever-evolving realm of IT. Trends in this field come and go so swiftly that keeping up becomes a daunting task. Amidst this constant flux, software ecosystems emerge as complex and dynamic systems. They comprise multiple interdependent…

Navigating student life in today’s information-rich era poses significant challenges. Beyond the academic pressures, students grapple with diverse learning methods. The stUUdy mobile app, a collaborative effort with Utrecht University, addresses this complexity. Its initial version made by a previous group introduced a motivating mascot, task-setting, and collaborative study options. The current version has new…

Cognitive Mapping is a powerful and versatile research technique that is used to research the belief system of citizens and policy makers with regards to policy making and political events. It analyses texts and transforms the contents into a semantic network that represents the beliefs of individuals or groups of people. The network representation of…

The SecureSECO DAO is a fully-functioning Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO), built to provide a sustainable platform for the monetization and incentivization of SearchSECO. It is an organization that lives on the blockchain, governed by proposals that members of the DAO create and vote on to make decisions. To enable the monetization of SearchSECO, a project…

This document contains reflections regarding the expectations, planning, process, occurrences, and decisions that transpired over the course of our1 hard work during the last 20 weeks. We describe the client2-requests and show our current application’s functionality through screenshots and descriptions. Thereafter we offer our initial planning documentation followed by justifications on any deviation from the…

This document reports on the process and result of the Culture for Business Game, as part of the bachelor Computer Science’s final course Software Project at the Utrecht University. The Culture for Business Game is an interactive, gamified quiz, created for a cultural business-consultancy called Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (THT). The goal of this game is to…

Gourds is a brand-new puzzle game that revolutionizes sliding puzzles. The result of this project is an intuitive web application that implements the puzzle. A major component is an algorithm that generates puzzle boards based on the colors of an image. Users can upload images to create custom puzzles with this algorithm. These custom puzzles…