Dr. Jan Simons is Associate Professor in New Media Studies at the Media Studies Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He was senior member of the research project "Digital Games" (Transformaties in Kunst en Cultuur, funded by the Dutch Science Organisation NWO) and director of the Mobile Learning Game Kit Project, in which the department of Media studies collaborated with Hogeschool van Amsterdam's Medialab and Waag Society to develop a toolkit for educational games for mobile devices.