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RAPID: Development and deployment of a digital game to combat COVID-19 misconceptions

RAPID：开发和部署数字游戏以消除对 COVID-19 的误解

基本信息

批准号：
2030273
负责人：
Gregory Trevors
金额：
$ 19.96万
依托单位：
University of South Carolina at Columbia
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-05-01 至 2022-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030273&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
RAPID Development deployment digital game

项目摘要

Early reports show that the general public holds several misconceptions regarding the risks, transmission, prevention, and treatment of the novel coronavirus. If not acted upon, such misconceptions may lead to serious and irreversible harm to individuals and societies. This project responds to the urgent need to more effectively correct misconceptions about COVID-19 and to improve upon prior failed attempts to change beliefs about controversial or emotionally-laden subjects. By promoting affective engagement via digital games, this project seeks to overcome some of the psychological barriers to belief change. The potential for broad dissemination through gamification will provide important insights into whether gamified digital platforms may be a venue to overcome limitations of traditional direct routes of belief revision. The project will provide important insights into the pressing question of whether gamified educational content can effectively correct emotionally-laden and polarized COVID-19 misconceptions.The solutions this project provides for successful revision of COVID-19 misconception centers on two interlocking objectives: (1) design of content specifically to promote the forms of cognitive processes known to revise misconceptions and (2) develop a new delivery method to present such content that mitigates negative affect and biased reasoning. This project will address both problems with a novel digital game that integrates cognitive and gamification design principles for belief revision and may represent a transformational augmentation in how individuals interact with challenging educational content. The digital game will be widely disseminated online in the U.S. and can be played on mobile or desktop devices. Overall, the quiz game will be designed to positively engage learners as they process educational content via game elements and mechanics. Affect, belief, and user interactions on the platform will be data mined for relevant learner analytic variables, profiles, and predictors of success. Findings will be used to iteratively modify subsequent game development and design to optimize success metrics. The project will advance fundamental knowledge of digital learning contexts and processes in correcting challenging misconceptions and address important national concerns of strengthening the general public’s knowledge of COVID-19.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

早期的报告显示，公众对新型冠状病毒的风险、传播、预防和治疗存在一些误解。如果不采取行动，这些误解可能对个人和社会造成严重和不可逆转的伤害。该项目响应了更有效地纠正对COVID-19的误解的迫切需要，并改善了之前改变对有争议或充满情感的主题的信念的失败尝试。通过数字游戏促进情感互动，该项目试图克服一些信念改变的心理障碍。通过游戏化进行广泛传播的潜力将提供重要的见解，以了解游戏化的数字平台是否可能成为克服传统直接信念修正途径局限性的场所。该项目将为游戏化教育内容是否能有效纠正充满情绪和两极分化的COVID-19误解这一紧迫问题提供重要见解。本项目为成功纠正COVID-19误解提供的解决方案以两个相互关联的目标为中心：(1)专门设计内容，以促进已知的纠正误解的认知过程形式；(2)开发一种新的交付方法来呈现此类内容，以减轻负面影响和偏见推理。该项目将通过一款新颖的数字游戏解决这两个问题，该游戏整合了认知和游戏化设计原则，用于信念修正，并可能代表个人如何与具有挑战性的教育内容互动的转型增强。这款数字游戏将在美国的网络上广泛传播，可以在手机或桌面设备上玩。总的来说，这款益智游戏的设计将积极地吸引学习者，让他们通过游戏元素和机制来处理教育内容。平台上的影响、信念和用户交互将被挖掘为相关的学习者分析变量、概况和成功预测因素的数据。研究结果将用于迭代修改随后的游戏开发和设计，以优化成功指标。该项目将促进对数字学习环境和过程的基本认识，以纠正具有挑战性的误解，并解决加强公众对COVID-19知识的重要国家关切。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。