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Projects & Publications

The tools I have designed and shipped. Two of them, CivicConnect Ghana and CivicQuest Ghana, sit at the center of my semester goal: I want the seminar readings on games, learning, and emerging technology to sharpen how I build and study them. Further down is the research I have published and presented.


Closest to the seminar
Civic tech · React / Supabase

CivicConnect Ghana

A national civic-technology platform that connects citizens with government through community issue reporting, transparency dashboards, regional discussion rooms, and a voice feed for public conversation. It is also the setting for my dissertation, a design-based study of how a civic reporting tool shapes citizens' perceived government accountability.

ReactSupabaseAccountabilityDesign-based research
Serious game · Unity / WebGL

CivicQuest Ghana

A browser-based civic-education game I designed and built. Players work through everyday scenarios of citizenship in Ghana and learn how governance, rights, and civic responsibility work by playing through them rather than reading about them. This is the case that the digital game-based learning literature speaks to most directly.

UnityWebGLGame-based learningCivic education
Also built
Civic tech · React / Supabase

CivicTransit GH

An online booking platform for Ghana's inter-city public transport. Riders reserve a seat and pay before they travel instead of queueing at the station, which makes trips easier to plan.

ReactSupabaseMobility
EdTech · React / TypeScript / Supabase · Android

PizzoStatPrep

A self-paced statistics course that takes learners from zero to job-ready, with lesson modules, quizzes, achievement badges, a completion certificate, an interview-prep section, and a method-selection guide. Built for web and native Android from one codebase.

ReactTypeScriptCapacitorRecharts
Interactive · R / Shiny

Research Dashboard

An interactive dashboard that brings my research data to life, so reviewers and collaborators can explore analyses and visualizations directly in the browser.

RShinyData viz

Also built: TRIO Mentor Training Module · ICF Church Ohio

Publications
Under
review
Between Two Worlds: African international students in U.S. higher education, an autoethnographic account
Bimpong, B. W. Routledge (under review).
2026
"We truly appreciate the tuition waiver": Financial strategies among African international graduate students in higher education
Bimpong, B. W., Dwamenaa, A., and Agorsor, E. Journal of College and Character.
2026
Using games to facilitate conflict management skill development in resident assistants: A design-based study
Owusu, F., and Bimpong, B. W. Journal of College and Character.
2025
The evolution of African international students' perspectives on homosexuality after enrolling in U.S. research universities
Bimpong, B. W., and Owusu, F. International Journal of Educational Development. LGBT Center Student Award.
2025
Using phenomenology to investigate digital experience: An empathic-somatic approach
Bimpong, B. W., Bimpong, W. K., and Kwakye, M. E. Mid-Western Educational Researcher. Lead author and originator of the Empathic-Somatic Approach.
2024
Exploring the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) writing tools in teaching and learning: Faculty and students' perspectives in higher education
Bimpong, B. W., Atsise, P., and Owusu, F. East African Journal of Information Technology.
2024
The uncertainties of student affairs professionals in the age of artificial intelligence
Owusu, F., and Bimpong, B. W. East African Journal of Education Studies.
2023
Challenges facing African international students at research universities in the United States
Bimpong, B. Journal of Education and Teaching Methods.
Presentations

Full record, including editorial work and awards: CV · PDF ↗