Introducing Gamettes: A Playful Approach for Capturing Decision-Making for Informing Behavioral Models

Mohaddesi, Omid; Azghandi, Rana; Doroudi, Rozhin; Snodgrass, Sam; Ergün, Özlem; Griffin, Jacqueline; Kaeli, David; Marsella, Stacy; Harteveld, Casper

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376571

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“…We presented Gamettes as a methodology for studying human decision-making by putting human players into the loop of an agent-based simulation [12]. Gamettes are used to immerse human players into a decision-making scenario by responding to a dialog or taking actions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Using StudyCrafter, we designed a Gamette where players take the role of a wholesaler in a drug delivery supply chain. For more details on Gamette Design, we refer to [12].…”

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“…In addition, games and game-like environments provide afordances that make them appealing for use in research [7]. For these reasons, there has been a growing trend in the use of games and game-like environments as research environments [1,2,12]. As part of this trend and in our prior work, we presented a game-based methodology called Gamettes for collecting rich behavioral data on human decisionmaking [12].…”

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“…For these reasons, there has been a growing trend in the use of games and game-like environments as research environments [1,2,12]. As part of this trend and in our prior work, we presented a game-based methodology called Gamettes for collecting rich behavioral data on human decisionmaking [12]. Gamettes interact with a multi-agent simulation and are used to immerse human participants into a decision-making Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for proft or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the frst page.…”

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The Importance of Pilot Studies for Gamified Research

Mohaddesi

Harteveld

2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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Games and game-like methodologies are increasingly used as research environments, especially to conduct experiments to study decision-making. This growing trend in conducting gamifed experiments is suggestive of the need for pilot studies and pre-testing the underlying games as well as experimental design. In this paper, we present an example of conducting a pilot study using Gamettes, a game-based methodology for collecting rich behavioral data on human decisions. Our results shed light on the efcacy of our experiment, how Gamettes' players interact with it in the way it is designed, and help identify issues that could bias the experiment and lead to a failed study. They further confrm the importance of conducting and reporting such pilot studies in gamifed research.

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Section: Background 21 Gamifed Research With Gamettesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using StudyCrafter, we designed a Gamette where players take the role of a wholesaler in a drug delivery supply chain. For more details on Gamette Design, we refer to [12].…”

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The Importance of Pilot Studies for Gamified Research

Mohaddesi

Harteveld

2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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“…Simulation games have been increasingly used as a research environment to study human decisions in critical contexts. In particular, methods such as gaming simulation [44] and participatory simulation [1,29], and game-based simulation environments such as gamettes [47] have shown promise for advancing our understanding of human behavior. Researchers create these environments to validate and improve the underlying simulation by observing or modeling human behavior.…”

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To Trust or to Stockpile: Modeling Human-Simulation Interaction in Supply Chain Shortages

Mohaddesi,

Griffin,

Ergun

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Understanding decision-making in dynamic and complex settings is a challenge yet essential for preventing, mitigating, and responding to adverse events (e.g., disasters, financial crises). Simulation games have shown promise to advance our understanding of decision-making in such settings. However, an open question remains on how we extract useful information from these games. We contribute an approach to model humansimulation 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 different player types (hoarders, reactors, followers), how behavior changes in different system states, and how sharing information impacts behavior. We discuss how our findings challenge existing literature.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI.

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