State of the art of my research on persuasive games for environment protection, susteinability and water management

1. Persuasive games
Concept, state of the art and issues on
sustainability applications

2. Initial CONCEPTS

3. Concept
• What are these
persuasive games,
after all?

4. The first doubt
• Pervasive or persuasive?

5. And even more doubts
• Serious gaming, ubiqutuous computing,
activating game, exergaming, constructionist
and behaviorist learning, augmented reality
games, social games...

6. Gathering everything together...
• Related concepts:
• Serious games
• Gamification
• Games with a purpose
• Pervasive games

7. ... And voilà!
• Related concepts:
• Serious games
• Gamification
• Games with a purpose
• Pervasive games
• Persuasive games

8. ... And voilà!
• Related concepts:
• Serious games
• Gamification
• Games with a purpose
• Pervasive games
• Persuasive games

9. HERE THERE ARE THE SERIOUS
GAMES!
Hi, i’m
serious!
“Games that do not have
entertainment, enjoyment or
fun as their primary purpose”
(Michael & Chen, 2005).

10. For training

11. For education

12. AND HERE THERE ARE THE
PERVASIVE GAMES!
I’m pervasive!
Games based on pervasive
technology.

13. Some of them already
commercial!

14. Some of them are designed for
more than entertaining…

15. SOME OF THEM ARE DESIGNED FOR
MORE THAN ENTERTAINING
Yan Xu et. al.: Designing pervasive health games for
sustainability, adaptability and sociability

16. Also some of the serious, try to
change your opinion about
something
We’re
persuasive!
Games (tries to) that change
your opinion/behaviour on
some topic.

17. Being pervasive... Or not!
Pervasive Serious
Persuasive

18. State of the art on
PERSUASIVE GAMES

19. Methodology
•Research:
• Portals: IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Library
• Terms: “persuasive games”
• Years: from 2009 to 2013

20. Methodology
•Results:
• 95 results (19 from IEEE, 76 from ACM)
• 1 panel
• 1 keynote
• 4 journals
• 6 conference proceedings
• 83 papers
• (12 papers - from backward and forward
chaining)

21. Categorization
35
39
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Papers
Applications
Design and tools
Others

22. The others
Others
Papers more related to game
culture or, that didn’t talk about
games.

23. Design aspects, tools and
psychological studies
• Psychological aspects of
persuasion

24. Design aspects, tools and
psychological studies
• Psychological aspects of
persuasion
• Designing for persuade

25. Design aspects, tools and
psychological studies
• Psychological aspects of
persuasion
• Designing for persuade
• Framework and methodologies

26. Applications
Games for health
PiNiZoRo: A GPS-based Exercise Game for Families
Stanley, K. et al., (2010), Proceedings of Future Play 2010.

27. Applications
Games for producing
“social effects”
Amy Eubanks: Catching Fireflies: a persuasive augmented
reality game for Android phones, 2011

28. Applications
Games for environment and
sustainability
• 8 results

29. Applications
Games for environment and
sustainability (8 results)
Pedro Centieiro, et. al.: A location-based multiplayer mobile
game to encourage pro-environmental behaviours. 2011

30. About WATER
management

31. Actual table
Water wars Atoll Game The Basin Challenge /
Catchment detox
FloodSim Acqua Republica
Tecnologia Não especificado VisualWorks©,
CORMAS©platform
Flash Flash Unity
Role of the player Stakeholders Family providers – 1 water
agency player
Policymakers (god) Flood policy strategist Mayor (god)
Feedback Message boards Não especificado Messages in game and
leaderboard
Messages in game Messages in game
Mecanica Turn based rpg Rpg computer assisted Rpg Simulated rpg Rpg
WM Issues - Policies
- Variable water conditions
- Variable water
conditions
(hydrogeological model)
- Scarcity
- Management (Policies)
- Policies
- Variable water
conditions
- Scarcity of water
- Floods (concepts and
policies)
- variable water conditions
- policies
Players Multiplayer, chat
communication
Up to 16 presential
players (8 for board)
1-2 players 1 1
Primary focus Facilitating discourse
among inhabitants of a
real world watershed
Land and water allocation
conflicting rules
Manage a river catchment
so that after 50/100 years
you have a healthy
economy and
environment.
Raising awareness of
issues surrounding
flooding policy
and citizen engagement
in the UK
to play and learn—by
personal experience,
about the conflicts and
trade-offs that exist in a
river basin.
Publico alvo New mexico residents Tarawa atoll 16
representa. (people and
policymakers)
Teenage students (anyone
can play)
Everyone (UK residents) Everyone ()
Platform web and mobile PC supported board game Web Web Web (portable)
Extracting data Semi structured interview semi-automatic
software
Not provided Not provided Numerical computational
models (MIKE BASIN from
DHI)

32. How?
Water wars Atoll Game The Basin
Challenge /
Catchment
detox
FloodSim Acqua
Republica
Technology Non specified VisualWorks,
and CORMAS
platform
Flash Flash Unity
Mechanics Turn based
(Rpg)
Turn based
computer
assisted rpg)
Turn based
(Rpg)
Turn based
(Rpg)
Turn based
(Rpg)
Platform Web and
mobile
PC supported
board game
Web Web Web
(portable)

33. Who?
Water wars Atoll Game The Basin
Challenge /
Catchment
detox
FloodSim Acqua Republica
Target
Audience
New mexico
residents
Tarawa atoll 16
representa.
(people and
policymakers)
Teenage
students
(anyone can
play)
Everyone (UK
residents)
Everyone
Numbers of
players
Multiplayer, chat
communication
Up to 16
presential
players (8 for
board)
1-2 players 1 1
Role of the
player
Stakeholders Family
providers – 1
water agency
player
Policymakers
(god)
Flood policy
strategist
Mayor(god)

34. Dealing with data
Water wars Atoll Game The Basin
Challenge /
Catchment
detox
FloodSim Acqua
Republica
Extracting data Semi structured
interview
Semi-automatic
software
Not provided Not provided Numerical
computational
models (MIKE
BASIN from DHI)
Feedback Message boards Non specified Messages in
game and
leaderboard
Messages in
game
Messages in
game
WM Issues - Policies
- Variable water
conditions
- Variable water
conditions
(hydrogeological
model)
- Scarcity
- Management
(Policies)
- Policies
- Variable water
conditions
- Scarcity of
water
- Floods
(concepts and
policies)
- variable water
conditions
- policies

35. And out there in the jungle
• Water Smart Software
(http://www.watersmartsoftware.com/index.
html)

36. Watersmart
• Personalized

37. Watersmart
• Gamified

38. Issues on persuasive games
development for sustainability

39. Open Question 1
If we’re going to use social data...

40. Open Question 1
If we’re going to use social data,
how to treat massivedata?

41. A thought
“The impact of scaling sensing applications from
personal to population scale is unknown. […] Today, we
only have limited experience in building scalable
sensing systems”. Nicholas D Lane, et al “A survey of
mobile phone sensing” IEEE Communications Magazine
2010

42. Open Question 2
How to guarantee that the results go
for the long time?

43. The Power agent example
Gustafsson, A. and Bång, M. 2008. Evaluation of a pervasive
game for domestic energy engagement among teenagers.

44. Power EXPLORER
• Gustafsson, Anton and Bång, Magnus and Svahn, Mattia
s (2009) Power Explorer – a casual game style for
encouraging long term behavior change among
teenagers.

45. Retention techniques
• Gustafsson conclusions on design issues – to
teenagers:
• Casual game play
• Small investments by players
• Fast and frequent reward

46. But...
• Lucas Pereira et. al. – Understanding the limitations
of eco-feedback: a one-year long-term study -
Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge
Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data Lecture
Notes in Computer Science Volume 7947, 2013,

47. IT’s all ABOUT
• Intrinsic motivation!

48. CONCLUSIONS

49. Open Problems
• 1 – How to treat massive data
• 2 – How to guarantee the results for the long
time

50. Open Problems
• 1 – How to treat massive data
• 2 – How to guarantee the results for the long
time
Privacy
Energy consumption
Quickness / Quality

51. Open Problems
• 1 – How to treat massive data
• 2 – How to guarantee the results for the long
time Persuasive design
Retention Techniques
Feedback Tailoring

52. Persuasive is hot...
• http://www.persuasive2014.org/

53. And water is opened