Participative Game Design in the Zet Project – Engaging the Youth to Enhance Wellbeing

Tuohimaa, Hanna; Kankainen, Ville; Meristö, Tarja; Laitinen, Jukka

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-44672-1_11

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“…Testing with our main target audience—the Finnish stakeholders in land use planners, conservation, and development—allowed us to reflect how they received our framings of the topic and to get an early user feedback on the game design (see Mildner and Mueller 2016). In addition, these sessions helped in building their ownership towards the game, which is one of the key benefits of participatory design (Ampatzidou and Gugerell 2019; Tuohimaa et al 2016). Playing with board game hobbyists, who were familiar with a variety of board games and, to some extent, game design principles, we were able to get expert feedback on playability issues of the game.…”

Section: Intervention—kompensaatiopeli Offsetting Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To intervene in the public discussion on BDO emerging in Finland, we designed a board game on biodiversity offsetting and played it with public and private stakeholders expected to encounter and implement BDO as the policy development proceeds in Finland. The aim was to encourage players to think and discuss the topic of the game, connecting the gaming sessions to other group discussion designs with a similar aim (e.g., Marková et al 2007), such as dialogue workshops (e.g., Cuppen, 2012; Nygren et al, 2017; Tuohimaa et al, 2016). In other words, the game is designed to provide both structure and contents for a discussion among the players (Asplund et al 2019), similar to workshop discussion tasks and structures.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Offsetting Game—Framing Environmental Issues in the Design of a Serious Game

Nygren

Kankainen

Brunet

2022

Simulation & Gaming

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Background Biodiversity crisis requires researchers to reflect on tools and strategies to engage with different stakeholders. We propose that serious games can be designed to introduce stakeholders to a novel environmental policy tool and to communicate research on environmental issues. Our case is biodiversity offsetting (BDO), a novel policy tool aiming to reconcile nature conservation with other land uses. As any media, games offer certain framings of the issues they communicate about—some aspects are made more salient than others. However, frame analysis has not been widely used to analyze the design choices or the messages communicated by games. We analyze how these framings are designed into a game communicating about environmental issues. Aim To intervene in the emerging public discussion on BDO in Finland, we designed a land use board game and during the design process, played it with public and private stakeholders who would soon encounter and implement biodiversity offsetting policies in Finland. The aim of this article is to describe how our framings of BDO affected the design process and how those framings interacted with the design decisions we made. With our analysis, we want to contribute to the understanding of how framings and design choices interact in game design and how paying attention to framings is especially important for the design of SGs. Method We analyze how our framings of biodiversity offsetting and our design choices interact in game design. Our understanding of biodiversity offsetting guided our game design, but the design choices also contribute to the framing of the issue itself. Results Game design choices strongly frame the topic of the game and thus influence the function of a serious game. Thus, the framings of the topic should be considered carefully during the game design process, especially in the context of serious games.

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Section: Intervention—kompensaatiopeli Offsetting Gamementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Offsetting Game—Framing Environmental Issues in the Design of a Serious Game

Nygren

Kankainen

Brunet

2022

Simulation & Gaming

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“…This information was used as the baseline information in the design of a new project funded by the European Regional Fund. In the project, the goal was to design a citizen centric framework for seamless care and pilot new wellbeing services to patch the gaps found in the path (Tuohimaa et al 2012). …”

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In search of an empowering and motivating personal wellbeing pathway for Finnish heart patients

Tuohimaa

2014

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In this article, motivation for healthy living is discussed, with a special focus on empowerment and responsibility. The individual and his or her needs and preferences are taken as the starting point with an aim to sketch a holistic picture of the elements needed in a health promotive care process from the perspective of the individual, to enhance empowerment and motivation to lead a healthy life. Health and wellbeing related services are presented as an exemplar of a structural element by which society can work as an enabler of wellbeing, taking co-responsibility of the wellbeing of the individual. It is argued that this requires that the services of public, private and third sector service providers from different fields are seamlessly connected and easy to access, with support and information available throughout the personally tailored care pathway. Also the knowhow and attitudes of all the actors must be thought of. These aspects of a good care process have been identified through interviews with heart patients and workshops with actors in a region in southern Finland, as well as based on theoretical background information and prior research. These aspects form the personal wellbeing pathway model that is presented in this article as an ideal type of a service pathway to enhance taking actively charge of one’s own wellbeing.

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Participative Game Design in the Zet Project – Engaging the Youth to Enhance Wellbeing

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Offsetting Game—Framing Environmental Issues in the Design of a Serious Game

Offsetting Game—Framing Environmental Issues in the Design of a Serious Game

In search of an empowering and motivating personal wellbeing pathway for Finnish heart patients

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