Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences

El Raoui, Hanane; Quigley, John; Aslan, Ayse; Vasantha, Gokula; Hanson, Jack; Corney, Jonathan; Sherlock, Andrew

Abstract

Conventional methods used to elicit risk-taking preferences have demonstrated significant disparities with real-world behaviours, compromising the validity of the data collected. Serious gaming (SG) provides a high potential to bridge this gap. This paper presents a serious game as a novel approach to elicit risk-preference in an industrial manufacturing context, focusing on the game-design and implementation using hybrid simulation modelling. The developed SG serves as a tool for conducting incentivized experiments aimed
at assessing human behaviour towards risk, to inform policy recommendations. The game incorporates two influential factors in shaping risk-taking behaviour in a manufacturing environment, namely the social learning and production pressure and use a variety of game mechanics to promote the players’ motivation and engagement. A usability study was conducted with 10 participants using the Usability Scale System (SUS) to identify problems in the usability of the game. Results have shown that our game has a good
usability.

Citation

El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2024). Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences. In 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (1304-1315). https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC60868.2023.10407667

• Conference Name: The Winter Simulation Conference 2023
• Conference Location: San Antonio, Texas
• Start Date: Dec 10, 2023
• End Date: Dec 13, 2023
• Acceptance Date: Jul 28, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jan 31, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Deposit Date: Sep 3, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 31, 2024
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 1304-1315
• Book Title: 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
• ISBN: 979-8-3503-6967-0
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC60868.2023.10407667
• Keywords: serious game, manufacturing industry, hybrid simulation modelling, risk preferences
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3182536
• Related Public URLs: https://dl.acm.org/conference/wsc