A Game-Based Service to Mitigate the Risk of Inundations Caused by Solid Waste Accumulation

Lepe-Salazar, Francisco; Cortés-Álvarez, Tania; Serratos-Chávez, Elia; Jáuregui-Flores, Luis; Juárez-Cervantes, Erick; Valdovinos-López, Rodolfo; Rincón-Martínez, Demis; Madrid, Ramón Moreno-de la

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-9765-3_13

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“…A city may hire more waste management workers and build more garbage trucks, but that will come at a monetary and environmental cost-not to mention the need to sequester or otherwise dispose of the waste. Wood of War is a serious game for waste management research created by Salazar et al [7]. This game (Figure 4) uses mobile user data to identify areas with excessive solid waste build-up in Colima, Mexico throughout gameplay, and then compares these data to a map of areas in Colima, Mexico with significant amounts of rainfall to identify potential risk points where rain and trash could mix, blocking sewer drains and causing flooding.…”

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“…The game encourages players to go to these areas to destroy or dispose of enemies modeled to resemble sentient trash into piles of waste. Users are given extra points if they find a new area of excess waste and tag it using GPS for the developers [7]. This cycle of finding enemies in the real-world waste and finding trash-laden locations for more points-bearing enemies keeps game participation high and allows the developers to collect data valuable to local waste removal services [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Users are given extra points if they find a new area of excess waste and tag it using GPS for the developers [7]. This cycle of finding enemies in the real-world waste and finding trash-laden locations for more points-bearing enemies keeps game participation high and allows the developers to collect data valuable to local waste removal services [7]. Serious games like Wood of War can be specialized to a specific area of need like Colima, Mexico, where urbanization has been steadily growing in recent years while the waste management system is struggling to keep up with its urban population's excess waste.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Figure 4. Wood of War encourages players to map trash by using real-world data to spawn trash monsters (Adapted with permission from Ref [7]…”

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Modelling Key Performance Indicators in a Gamified Waste Management Tool

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Broader understanding of waste management has the potential to bring about broad societal change impacting the climate crisis and public health. We present existing waste management tools and commercially-available games involving waste management, highlighting the strengths and opportunities left unaddressed by these tools in educational contexts and planning use cases. A survey motivates the need for enhanced interactive tools providing clear feedback through quick-visibility performance indicators. After identifying an opportunity to build upon highly-detailed multi-criteria simulation tools, we explore the need for easy-to-read performance metrics that will bring to the field of waste management easily identifiable and measurable key performance indicators (KPIs) that vary alongside factors affecting waste management policies. Such metrics are introduced and detailed as part of a unified waste management model. We then develop a representative gamified educational tool based upon this model to be used by students, decision makers planning real-world policies, and the public. This simulator is built upon the Unity Game Engine and emulates waste management techniques and resulting KPIs within the context of a virtual city.

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Section: Simulation Games and Gamified Toolsmentioning

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Section: Simulation Games and Gamified Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%