Hand hygiene is a widespread problem at the Roskilde Festival. The festival-goers do not spend much time washing their hands before meals or after they have been to the toilet.
Our solution is to gamify the use of hand sanitizer by having a reaction based game at the food stalls. The idea is that the game encourages festival-goers to clean their hands through the game and thus increase hand hygiene at the Roskilde Festival. In this way, waiting in the queue becomes an opportunity to have fun.
The source of poor hand hygiene is often the toilet, but it has been estimated that the cleaning of the festival-goers hands have the greatest impact at the food stalls, since it is here that diseases are transmitted orally.
The player must place his hands on either side of the large circle and when the player’s hands are registered the game begins. All lamps and LED starts flashing red and suddenly "GO” flashes green. The player must now follow the circle with diodes down along the edge. The hand sanitizer is released when the player's hands is at the bottom of the circle. The player receives the hand sanitizer and can now clean his hands. Players are rated on a scale of animals from turtle to a cheetah and can thus compete against their friends in the queue.
The project is a test of how to motivate the festival-goers to increase hygiene at Roskilde Festival. The aim is to gain insight into how games and play can be implemented in a festival atmosphere as a way to alter the festival-goer’s behavior.
Contact info@roskilde.dtu.dk if you want to hear more!