Design of a serious game for safety in manufacturing industry using hybrid simulation modelling : towards eliciting risk preferences

El-Raoui, Hanane and Quigley, John and Aslan, Ayse and Vasantha, Gokula and Hanson, Jack and Corney, Jonathan and Sherlock, Andrew (2023) Design of a serious game for safety in manufacturing industry using hybrid simulation modelling : towards eliciting risk preferences. In: 2023 Winter Simulation Conference, 2023-12-10 - 2023-12-13, San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter.

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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.

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El-Raoui, Hanane ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9079-3248, Quigley, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-8470, Aslan, Ayse, Vasantha, Gokula, Hanson, Jack, Corney, Jonathan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1210-3827 and Sherlock, Andrew;
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