A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexities of Flood Mitigation Options in Urban-Rural Catchments
A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexities of Flood Mitigation Options in Urban-Rural Catchments
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DOI：
10.3390/w10121885
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Wigley, Sarah
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作者：
Khoury, Mehdi;Gibson, Michael J.;Wigley, Sarah
在气候变化的影响下，城乡混合环境下的防洪问题日益受到关注。这是一项复杂的任务，既需要有效的资源管理，也需要来自不同背景的多个利益相关者的参与。由于严肃游戏（游戏用于娱乐以外的目的）已经成为吸引利益相关者的有效手段，这项工作提出了一种新的严肃游戏应用于英国米尔布鲁克村的洪水缓解。结果表明，该游戏具有信息性和变革性的作用（统计显著性水平从0.01到0.05），提高了参与者对问题的理解，并帮助他们找到了米尔布鲁克洪水风险管理的新方法，并有可能显著提高恢复力。此外，该游戏成功地将参与者转变为最纯粹意义上的公民科学家，引导他们利用游戏产生的数据进行归纳推理，正确确认或拒绝假设，并导致超过70%的参与者修改了他们最初的假设。有趣的是，这款游戏促进了新的当地合作伙伴关系的形成，并有助于在米尔布鲁克教区议会会议上优先讨论自然洪水管理措施。
Flood prevention in mixed urban-rural environments has become a greater concern due to climate change. It is a complex task requiring both efficient management of resources and the involvement of multiple stakeholders from diverse backgrounds. As Serious Games (games used for purposes other than mere entertainment) have emerged as an effective means of engaging stakeholders, this work proposes a new Serious Game applied to flood mitigation in the village of Millbrook in the UK. Results show that the game has both an informative and a transformative effect (statistical significance levels from 0.01 to 0.05), improving participants' understanding of the problem, and helping them to find a new and improved approach to flood risk management in Millbrook, with the potential to improve resilience significantly. Furthermore, the game successfully transformed participants into citizen scientists in the purest sense of the termit led them to use inductive reasoning from data produced by the game to correctly confirm or reject hypotheses and resulted in more than 70% of the participants revising their initial assumptions. Interestingly, the game instigated the formation of new local partnerships and helped to prioritize the discussion of natural flood management measures in Millbrook Parish Council meetings.