Game Based Learning on Urban Sustainability: The "Sustain" Project

Papathanasiou, Jason; Armenia, Stefano; Barnabè, Federico; Carlini, Camillo; Ciobanu, Natalia; Digkoglou, Panagiota; Jarząbek, Łukasz; Kulakowska, Michalina; Lanzuisi, Alessandro; Morfoulaki, Maria; Myrovali, Glykeria; Onofrei, Camelia; Pompei, Alessandro; Scolozzi, Rocco; Tsaples, George

doi:10.21125/edulearn.2019.2293

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“…There is a long and robust tradition of SD-based serious games, both single-and multiplayer, and physical and virtual, [46][47][48] that serve the purpose of improving the understanding of systems (either by players through exploration and training or by researchers through observation of players' decisions). 'Stratagem2 [43], the Beer Game [18] and the Sustain game [49] are examples of well-known successful SD-based board games. Research indicates that players' interaction with serious games, particularly with board games, has several positive impacts, such as a deeper understanding of content, behavioural changes, knowledge retention and soft-skills development [23,50,51].…”

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Decision-Makers’ Understanding of Cyber-Security’s Systemic and Dynamic Complexity: Insights from a Board Game for Bank Managers

Zeijlemaker

Rouwette

Cunico

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Cyber-security incidents show how difficult it is to make optimal strategic decisions in such a complex environment. Given that it is hard for researchers to observe organisations’ decision-making processes driving cyber-security strategy, we developed a board game that mimics this real-life environment and shows the challenges of decision-making. We observed cyber-security experts participating in the game. The results showed that decision-makers who performed poorly tended to employ heuristics, leading to fallacious decision approaches (overreaction strategies in place of proactive ones), and were not always aware of their poor performances. We advocate the need for decision support tools that capture this complex dynamic nature.

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Section: System Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decision-Makers’ Understanding of Cyber-Security’s Systemic and Dynamic Complexity: Insights from a Board Game for Bank Managers

Zeijlemaker

Rouwette

Cunico

et al. 2022

Systems

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“…Beyond the above‐mentioned positive aspects of serious gaming, SD gamification efforts have been focusing on improving researchers' and players' comprehension of non‐linear complex systems evolving over time, aligning with the core purpose of the SD methodology (Forrester, 1961). Several practitioners have gamified their SD models across a wide range of research areas, such as operations strategy and management (Adamides, 2018; Lainema & Hilmola, 2005), business growth (Bianchi & Bivona, 2000), agricultural operations (Gómez Prada et al, 2020; Saysel, 2017), sustainability and climate change (Nordby et al, 2016; Rooney‐Varga et al, 2020; Sterman et al, 2015), urban mobility (Papathanasiou et al, 2019), cybersecurity (Jalali et al, 2019; Zeijlemaker et al, 2019) and education and teaching (Sweeney & Meadows, 2010; Thomas & Milligan, 2004).…”

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System dynamics gamification: A proposal for shared principles

2021

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As gamification has been gaining ground in research practice, system dynamics is no exemption. Despite the long tradition of system dynamics gamification, capitalizing on lessons learned from previous experiences is still challenging for practitioners. Specifically, the extant literature introduces a repertoire of system dynamics-based simulators and games under quite divergent perspectives and nomenclatures, while a comprehensive set of practical 'how-to-gamify' guidelines and a resource repository are lacking. Thus, this research aims to propose a set of shared principles by (i) providing an embryonic definition of system dynamics gamification and (ii) framing the most relevant challenges and drivers, to fill in the literature gaps and allow for effective knowledge accumulation. Overall, this work anticipates rendering gamification as a recognized branch of the systems dynamics domain by establishing a common language and recommending directions to improve practice and research efforts.

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A Serious Game Proposal for Exploring and Designing Urban Sustainability

Romano

Alessandro

2023

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This contribution reports on part of the research carried out in the development of a digital serious game to explore and design urban sustainability. The work investigates the application of role-playing logics in urban transformation planning processes. Digital technologies support the participatory process and allow users to learn, interact and discuss the effectiveness of solutions when co-designing quality conditions for the everyday living environment and the sustainable development of their area. The method intends to develop procedures and simulations that aim to clarify and verify the results that transformations can have on the area’s ecological footprint. During the game, players gain knowledge and awareness of the individual behaviour changes and the built environment trasformations, necessary in order to impact their areas as sustainably and as little as possible. Prefiguring resilient and sustainable urban habitats, increasing user awareness of the need to adopt more responsible behaviours, increasing ability of the built environment to meet community needs by practising low environmental impact lifestyles: these key aspects are observing at all phases of the design process. This paper describes the progress of research carried out on the construction of the structure and rules of the game, developed prior to testing the method in the context of the municipality of Rescaldina, in the Milan metropolitan area.

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Game Based Learning on Urban Sustainability: The "Sustain" Project

Abstract: Societatea pentru Consum Responsabil (ROMANIA) 5 Stowarzyszenie Centrum Rozwiazan Systemowych (POLAND) 6 Ergo Ludo Editions (ITALY)

Cited by 6 publications

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Decision-Makers’ Understanding of Cyber-Security’s Systemic and Dynamic Complexity: Insights from a Board Game for Bank Managers

Decision-Makers’ Understanding of Cyber-Security’s Systemic and Dynamic Complexity: Insights from a Board Game for Bank Managers

System dynamics gamification: A proposal for shared principles

A Serious Game Proposal for Exploring and Designing Urban Sustainability

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