“Risk Management Can Actually Be Fun”

“Risk Management Can Actually Be Fun”: Using the Serious Cards for Biosafety Game to Stimulate Proper Discussions About Biosafety

Freese, M. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)
Tiemersma, S.A. (TU Delft Game Lab)
Verbraeck, A. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)

Dhar, Upinder (editor)
Dubey, Jigyasu (editor)
Dumblekar, Vinod (editor)
Meijer, Sebastiaan (editor)
Lukosch, Heide (editor)

2022

As part of a Dutch Science Foundation project called T-TRIPP, the authors developed the serious game Cards for Biosafety. The aim of Cards for Biosafety is to let young biotechnology researchers learn more about biosafety. Analyses of workshops with researchers from the biotechnology domain as well as results of interviews with several biosafety officers clearly indicated the need for such a serious game with a focus on educational learning. Cards for Biosafety is a physical (also playable online on Tabletopia) round-based card game and playable with up to eight players. The game itself consists of scenario, risk and measure cards, and the task of the players is to choose risk and measure cards that fit the scenario explained by the facilitator at the beginning of each round. To test the efficiency of Cards for Biosafety as a learning tool, the authors conducted two online-workshops with twelve participants. The results of these sessions have not only shown that Cards for Biosafety is a well-designed game, but also a successful game to achieve the intended learning goal. In addition, the authors recognized that ‘fun’ is an important element in the game which leads to ‘learning’ in a very effective way. Future research should focus on the role of such positive states in serious games and their influence on learning outcomes.

Biosafety
Biotechnology
Cards for Biosafety
Covid-19
Game design
Learning goals
Self-reflection moments
Serious games

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:19952dd8-063a-4c1a-8890-a43bbba14f5c

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09959-5_11

Springer

2023-01-27

978-3-031-09958-8

Gaming, Simulation and Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities - 52nd International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2021, Revised Selected Papers

52nd Annual Conference of International Simulation and Gaming Association, 2021-09-06 → 2021-09-10, Indore, India

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1611-3349, 13219

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© 2022 M. Freese, S.A. Tiemersma, A. Verbraeck