Title
Are you ready! To take early action? Embedding serious gaming into community managed DRR in Bangladesh
Author
van den Homberg, M.J.C.
Cumiskey, L.
Oprins, E.A.P.B.
Suarez, P.
van der Hulst, A.H.
Contributor
Palen, L.A. (editor)
Comes, T. (editor)
Buscher, M. (editor)
Hughes, A.L. (editor)
Palen, L.A. (editor)
Publication year
2015
Abstract
This paper applies a Game-based Learning Evaluation Model (GEM) to assess whether the early warning - early action serious game "Ready!" is an effective component to add to existing Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training curricula, facilitated by NGO staff and applied at the community level. We developed a paper-based survey with 17 five-level Likert items and 15 open questions addressing the different GEM indicators to question 16 NGO staff, and used a simplified set of five questions with emoticons for 58 community people. The results showed that the staff saw great potential in embedding Ready! in DRR processes and that the community highly appreciated the game. The GEM was found to be a useful methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of this serious game. However, in the context of a lower educated and partly illiterate community, the importance of designing an individual, largely visual assessment instrument instead of a paper-based survey was acknowledged.
Subject
Human and Operational Modelling
NO - Networked Organisations TPI - Training & Performance Innovations
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Safety and Security
Virtual environments and Gaming
Defence, Safety and Security
Climate change
Community-managed disaster risk reduction
Early warning
Game evaluation
Preparedness
Serious gaming
Climate change
Curricula
Disasters
Information systems
Personnel training
Surveys
Curriculum designs
Disaster risk reductions
Information management
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TNO identifier
529820
Publisher
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Source
ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 24-27 May 2015, Kristiansand, Norway
Document type
conference paper