Last Island: Exploring Transitions to Sustainable Futures through Play

Taghikhah, F; Raffe, WL; Mitri, G; Toit, SD; Voinov, A; Garcia, JA

Last Island: Exploring Transitions to Sustainable Futures through Play

Taghikhah, F Raffe, WL

Mitri, G Toit, SD Voinov, A

Garcia, JA

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Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2019
Issue Date:: 2019-01-29

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dc.contributor.author	Taghikhah, F	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Raffe, WL https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-0943	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Mitri, G	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Toit, SD	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Voinov, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-4574	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Garcia, JA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5718-1605	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-01-29	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2019	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781450366038	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/130485
dc.description.abstract	© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. A serious game was designed and developed with the goal of exploring potential sustainable futures and the transitions towards them. This computer-assisted board game, Last Island, which incorporates a system dynamics model into a board game's core mechanics, attempts to impart knowledge and understanding on sustainability and how an isolated society may transition to various futures to a non-expert community of players. To this end, this collaborativecompetitive game utilizes the Miniworld model which simulates three variables important for the sustainability of a society: Human population, economic production and the state of the environment. The resulting player interaction offers possibilities to collectively discover and validate potential scenarios for transitioning to a sustainable future, encouraging players to work together to balance the model output while also competing on individual objectives to be the individual winner of the game.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1145/3290688.3290746	en_US
dc.title	Last Island: Exploring Transitions to Sustainable Futures through Play	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Information, Systems and Modelling
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - PERSWADE - Centre on Persuasive Systems for Wise Adaptive Living
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. A serious game was designed and developed with the goal of exploring potential sustainable futures and the transitions towards them. This computer-assisted board game, Last Island, which incorporates a system dynamics model into a board game's core mechanics, attempts to impart knowledge and understanding on sustainability and how an isolated society may transition to various futures to a non-expert community of players. To this end, this collaborativecompetitive game utilizes the Miniworld model which simulates three variables important for the sustainability of a society: Human population, economic production and the state of the environment. The resulting player interaction offers possibilities to collectively discover and validate potential scenarios for transitioning to a sustainable future, encouraging players to work together to balance the model output while also competing on individual objectives to be the individual winner of the game.

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