Design of an Impulse-Debriefing-Spiral for Simulation Game Facilitation

Background.: Simulation gaming sessions can be understood as a sequence of briefing, game play, and debriefing - with feedback loops and iterative steps in between. Often, these sessions are supported by a facilitator, who organizes the session, sets learning goals, and guides the players through briefing, game play and debriefing (Taylor,...

The Tacit Knowledge in Games: From Validation to Debriefing

Game sessions consist of three phases: briefing, gameplay, and debriefing, with the latter being considered the most important feature of games. Nevertheless, given that games are considered by many to be more of an artistic form rather than a scientific artifact, a question that rises is: Can game sessions in general and debriefing in...

Improving the decision-making qualities of gaming simulations

Gaming simulations (games) for policy and decision making have been the neglected “sibling” of educational and training games. The latter have experienced a widespread usage by practitioners and researchers, while the former have had limited, yet slowly increasing, adoption by organisations. As a result, various issues developing and using these...

An inquiry into gaming simulations for decision making: From design to knowledge management

GAMING simulations (games) have been closely relatedwith systems, and particularly with systems characterised as being complex. There is a long history on the evolution of systems from simply technical and social, to socio-technical (STS) and all the way to complex (adaptive) systems (CAS). Within this ever-increasing complexity, an important...

Pitfalls for debriefing games and simulations: Theory and practice

Debriefing is considered, by many scholars, to be a fundamental part of learning through games and simulations. Despite its significance, there is a lack of research in the area of debriefing, which results in unaddressed factors that inhibit debriefing. Research in the field is complicated by many influencing factors varying from context to...

Redesigning the infrastructure and process of debriefing parcels: A case study at PostNL depot Den Hoorn

The growing parcel volumes have impact on the infrastructure and processes of logistic service providers. The infrastructure and process of debriefing parcels have been researched at PostNL parcels. Alternative methods to perform this process have been designed and evaluated to give an advise how to perform this process in the near future to...

Knowledge Management of Games for Decision Making

Games for decision making have developed into a powerful tool for corporations. Irrespective of their size, corporations have been increasingly using these games in order to evaluate and ascertain impact-ful business decisions and strategies. Despite their proven added value to the decision making process, there is still lack of research on...

The Debriefing of Research Games: A Structured Approach for the Validation of Gaming Simulation Outcomes

Debriefing is an overlooked topic in the gaming simulation literature, especially in the context of gaming for applied research and design. Building upon existing frameworks, mostly in the fields of policy and educational games, and linking the design of the debriefing with the intricacies of innovation in complex networked infrastructures, we...

Safety in the Operating Theatre | a Multi Factor Approach for Patients and Teams

Due to the advances in high-tech technology in the operating theatre, the increased number of persons involved, and the increased complexity of surgical procedures, medical errors are inflicted. To answer the main question: How to improve patient safety in the operating theatre during surgery? this thesis is split into three parts. Part A...