Metrópolis: un juego serio emergente en una ciudad inteligente

Abstract

Emerging serious games mark the beginning of a new era in video games. Emerging serious games introduce advances in distributed artificial intelligence into their design in order to guide the player’s manipulation of a specific subject in an adaptive way. In this article, we present a city simulator game, called Metropolis, which generates emergent properties. Metropolis can be used by a smart city for city planning, to make collective decisions, and for other purposes. This paper describes why Metropolis can be classified as a serious game. It also analyzes how its emergent properties can be used for managing a smart city, and especially how it promotes e-participation as an e-decision-making tool within the context of urban planning. In addition, this paper explores how Metropolis can be used to analyze a smart city’s emergent citizen and urban patterns (urban spatial distribution) based on strong e-participation.

VAPBr: Values in Digital Games for Public Service in Brazil

“…Serious digital games, due to their immersive and engagement potential, have been used in several domains as tools to promote engagement and learning [35][36][37]. The use of these games is also discussed as a social innovation strategy [8,38] and gamification is often used as an alternative to encourage citizen collaboration to improve public services [7,[9][10][11]. This research work is grounded on the idea that serious games can also be thought of as tools for understanding public service delivery processes, enabling citizens to understand the context, difficulties, particularities, challenges, and characteristics of these processes [12].…”

“…Among the initiatives to shorten the distance between citizens and public services, there are those exploring digital games, assuming that digital games can strengthen democracy and civic participation through social engagement [7][8][9][10][11]. Previous research has demonstrated the feasibility of building digital games from public services' process models.…”

Projetando Valores em Narrativas de Jogos Digitais Baseados em Processos para Serviços Públicos Brasileiros

“…Jogos Baseados em Processos de Prestac ¸ão de Servic ¸os Públicos Os jogos digitais sérios, devido ao seu potencial de imersão e engajamento, têm sido utilizados em diversos domínios como ferramentas para promover o engajamento e a aprendizagem [10]- [12]. O uso de jogos digitais sérios também é discutido como uma estratégia de inovac ¸ão social [13] [14] e a gamificac ¸ão é frequentemente usada como uma alternativa para incentivar a colaborac ¸ão do cidadão para melhorar os servic ¸os públicos [15] [3] [4] [16]. Este trabalho de pesquisa está fundamentado na ideia de que os jogos sérios também podem ser pensados como ferramentas para a compreensão dos processos de prestac ¸ão de servic ¸os públicos, possibilitando aos cidadãos compreender o contexto, as dificuldades, particularidades, desafios e características desses processos [5].…”