Recycling: A Serious Game Focused on the Classification of Waste

Idrobo, María Lilia; Saenz, Margui Fernanda; Márceles, Katerine; Chanchí, Gabriel Elías; Vidal, María Isabel; Burbano, Clara Lucia

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03763-5_20

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“…Eight of the nine studies did not prove entirely useful to our research efforts, as they either presented their gameful approach without actually evaluating the effectiveness of their design (Bifulco et al 2011;Berengueres et al 2013;Gonza ´lez-Briones et al 2018), evaluated their design qualitatively as a whole with a small number of users (Lotfi and Mohammed 2014;Sreelakshmi et al 2015;Menon et al 2017;Idrobo et al 2018) or touched on a relevant but adjacent topic (Whalen et al 2018). Except for one (Luo et al 2018), these studies did not provide insights into the effect of single design choices on learning outcomes but instead looked at their gameful implementations as a whole.…”

Section: Gameful Design and Waste Sortingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gameful Learning for a More Sustainable World

Hoffmann

Pfeiffer

2021

Bus Inf Syst Eng

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Municipal waste sorting is an important but neglected topic within sustainability-oriented Information Systems research. Most waste management systems depend on the quality of their citizens pre-sorting but lack teaching resources. Thus, it is important to raise awareness and knowledge on correct waste sorting to strengthen current efforts. Having shown promising results in raising learning outcomes and motivation in domains like health and economics, gamification is an auspicious approach to address this problem. The paper explores the effectiveness of gameful design on learning outcomes of waste sorting knowledge with a mobile game app that implements two different learning strategies: repetition and elaboration. In a laboratory experiment, the overall learning outcome of participants who trained with the game was compared to that of participants who trained with standard analogue non-game materials. Furthermore, the effects of two additional, learning-enhancing design elements – repetition and look-up – were analyzed. Learning outcome in terms of long-term retention and knowledge transfer were evaluated through three different testing measures two weeks after the training: in-game, through a multiple-choice test and real-life sorting. The results show that the game significantly enhanced the learning outcome of waste sorting knowledge for all measures, which is particularly remarkable for the real-life measure, as similar studies were not successful with regard to knowledge transfer to real life. Furthermore, look-up is found to be a promising game design element that is not yet established in IS literature and therefore should be considered more thoroughly in future research and practical implementations alike.

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Section: Gameful Design and Waste Sortingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gameful Learning for a More Sustainable World

Hoffmann

Pfeiffer

2021

Bus Inf Syst Eng

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“…Therefore, there is an urgent need to find effective methods and measures to improve the implementation of waste classification so as to make urban residents actively classify household waste. In existing research, much attention has been paid to the technology of waste classification [18][19][20]. In the latest research in the field of social science, some scholars have studied why individuals are willing or unwilling to participate in waste classification management [21,22], while few studies have focused on how to effectively use government publicity in the implementation of waste classification [15,16,22].…”

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Consumer’s Waste Classification Intention in China: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model

Min

Chen

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Although there have been a variety of studies on waste classification management, there are few studies on how governments can effectively publicize waste classification knowledge in order to enhance citizen participation. Government publicity may be the key to the effective implementation of waste classification management in China. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of government publicity, consumer attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and consumer knowledge on consumers’ willingness to classify waste in the process of waste management in China. The methodology used for the study included data collected from a survey conducted among citizens from four cities in China, the extended theory of planned behavior model and a moderating effect analyses using the statistical software Amos17.0 and SPSS 22.0, utilizing structural equation modeling, hierarchical regression, and the interpretation of the results. The results show that government publicity has a significant positive impact on consumer attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. The positive effect of consumer attitudes and perceived behavioral control on waste classification intentions are significant. Consumer knowledge plays a significant role in moderating the effect of perceived behavioral control on waste classification intentions. The findings of this study are of great significance to government and public decision-making. The results strongly suggest that the government should vigorously publicize the knowledge of waste classification at the initial stage of implementation of waste classification. Furthermore, a detailed distinction between types of consumers and the role of personal values in the implementation of waste classification is considered as a direction of future research.

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