The project “Simulation Game – Maintaining the Melioration Structure” was carried out in collaboration with the project CAVES (Complexity: Agents, Volatility, Evidence and Scale) as part of the 6th Framework Program of the European Union. The Centre for Systems Solutions offered an active cooperation in the form of creating the simulation game. The game is aimed at the discovery of the decision rules of the farmers in maintaining the drainage infrastructure. The study combines the elements of several measurement techniques: experimental measurement, a decision-making game based on computer simulation, observation and interview.
Playing the game
Experiment: Players take actions that are enforced by the decision-making system the system; every action has a definite value and cost.
The decision-making game: the experiment is carried out according to the scenario of a decision-making game, where interdependent decisions are made by a team.
Interview: its purpose is to gather additional information
Observation: it is conducted throughout the entire experiment, and it also serves to gather additional data on the behavior and decision-making processes of the experiment participants. The subject of observation are mainly the elements of nonverbal communication and that demeanor of the participants that would not be displayed in particular decision-making steps resulting from the game itself. The observation is supposed to provide additional information about the significance of the undertaken actions, the behavior of individual players while making decisions and their attitudes towards the other partakers in the game.
Results
- Creating a simulation game for the analysis of the farmers’ decision rules as far as the issue of maintaining the drainage infrastructure is concerned
- playing the game was filmed