Understanding decision-making in dynamic and complex settings is a challenge yet essential for preventing, mitigating, and responding to adverse events (e.g., disasters, fnancial crises). Simulation games have shown promise to advance our understanding of decisionmaking in such settings. However, an open question remains on how we extract useful information from these games. We contribute an approach to model human-simulation interaction by leveraging existing methods to characterize: (1) system states of dynamic simulation environments (with Principal Component Analysis), (2) behavioral responses from human interaction with simulation (with Hidden Markov Models), and (3) behavioral responses across system states (with Sequence Analysis). We demonstrate this approach with our game simulating drug shortages in a supply chain context. Results from our experimental study with 135 participants show diferent player types (hoarders, reactors, followers), how behavior changes in diferent system states, and how sharing information impacts behavior. We discuss how our fndings challenge existing literature.
CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI.
While some promising early work exists, gamified surveys are still not widespread. In this work-in-progress paper, we present our methodology on gamifying surveys, which combines the rigor of survey design with the creativity and affordances of game design and makes use of an existing tool to ease development. We illustrate our methodology with four different gamified surveys focused on personality tests and frameworks-in general and in the context of games. We discuss the challenges and opportunities and describe a research agenda to advance this work. CCS Concepts •General and reference → Measurement; •Human-centered computing → HCI design and evaluation methods;
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