Modeling collective adaptive agent design and its analysis in Barnga game

Abstract

This paper explores the collective adaptive agent that adapts to a group in contrast with the individual adaptive agent that adapts to a single user. For this purpose, this paper starts by defining the collective adaptive situation through an analysis of the subject experiments in the playing card game, Barnga, and investigates the factors that lead the group to the collective adaptive situation. Intensive simulations using Barnga agents have revealed the following implications: (1) the leader who takes account of other players' opinions contributes to guide players to the collective adaptation situation, and (2) an appropriate role balance among players (i.e., the leader, the claiming and quiet players, which make the most and least number of corrections of the leader's decision) is required to derive the collective adaptive situation.

Specifying Collective Adaptive Situations in Cross Cultural Game towards Validation of Agent-Based Social Simulation

“…However, what should be noted here is that such a comparison is only investigated from the viewpoint of the macro-level phenomena (i.e., C ave and C var ), which means that it is not investigated from the viewpoint of the micro-level phenomena (e.g., a mind change of players). For this issue, the previous research [8] has already compared a mind change of players and agents, and confirmed that such a change is the mostly same. Such an implication from the viewpoint of the micro-level phenomena supports the simulation results categorized by the proposed method from the viewpoint of the macro-level phenomena.…”

“…From the human subject experiment of Barnga in the previous study [8], the following three types of the players and several types of situations were found. Regarding the situation, in particular, this research aims at classifying the collective adaptive situation from the non-collective adaptive situation.…”

“…From this background, the previous research [8] conducted the agent-based social simulation of the cross-cultural game, Barnga [9], which is more complex than the simple test-beds described above because the players has partially opened interactions, i.e., they should perform predetermined actions (i.e., a discard) as a closed interactions but they can freely negotiate the decisions of the game using a body language or a facial expression as an opened interactions. Note that the real world is a fully opened social system where all interactions are opened, while Barnga is a partially opened social system where some of interactions are closed but others are opened.…”

Multicultural Experiential Learning in Music Therapy Supervision

“…Barnga is a card game that assists trainees in understanding cultural issues, such as acculturation, culture shock, and language needs. Participants are divided into groups and given a deck of cards and a set of rules (Steinwachs, 1990;Ushida, Hattori, & Takdama, 2010). In addition to rules established by the facilitator, each group has their own set of rules.…”

Multicultural personality and effectiveness in an intercultural training simulation: The role of stress and pro‐active communication

“…To simulate intercultural interactions in a training environment, we used a well‐known game named “Barnga,” which was specifically designed for this purpose (Thiagarajan & Steinwachs, ). Barnga is often recommended as a tool for group‐based intercultural training (Dalsky & Landis, ) and has been used previously in (quasi‐) experimental studies on interpersonal interaction (e.g., Ushida, Hattori, & Takdama, ). It fits the tradition of Experiential Learning Theory (ELT: Kolb, Boyatzis, & Mainemelis, ), which emphasises learning‐by‐doing , and the role of affect (over cognition) in learning processes.…”