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Gamified online survey to elicit citizens’ preferences and enhance learning for environmental decisions
- Source :
- Environmental Modelling & Software. 111:1-12
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) requires a critical step, namely to elicit individual preferences. On the basis of learning theories, we formalize preference construction as learning about facts and values, and as a process; we also conceptualize an online preference elicitation survey that offers learning loops to increase factual learning and support preference construction. Another originality is gamification. Game elements (a narrative and non-player characters as motivational affordance) keep respondents engaged in the demanding task of weight elicitation. Our tool enables broad public participation in MCDA, allowing reliable online preference elicitation. The survey concept was tested with 107 students and a control treatment. Quantitative and qualitative data indicate that the concept works. Participants’ factual knowledge increased. The survey helped students to learn about their own preferences concerning the importance of objectives. The practical implication is that weighting can be reliably elicited by online surveys. Participants reported a positive experience; further ways to improve it are thoroughly discussed.
- Subjects :
- 021103 operations research
Environmental Engineering
Ecological Modeling
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Applied psychology
0211 other engineering and technologies
Qualitative property
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Multiple-criteria decision analysis
01 natural sciences
Preference
Originality
Learning theory
Preference elicitation
Affordance
Psychology
Software
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Decision analysis
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Details
- ISSN :
- 13648152
- Volume :
- 111
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Modelling & Software
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ae7572fc815cd9fbac68596db5d2538d