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Yuan Pan1, A Bradley Duthie2, Isabel Jones2

  • 1Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, London, UK.

Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
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Summary

EcoKnowGames (Ecological Knowledge Games) uses game development to collect conservation data and engage stakeholders. This approach integrates player decisions into socioecological models for better environmental decision-making.

Keywords:
Compromiso culturalconservación participativacultural engagementdigital conservation toolsdigital gamesherramientas digitales de conservaciónimplicación de las partes interesadasjuegos con fines educativosjuegos digitalesparticipatory conservationserious gamesstakeholder engagementvideo gamesvideojuegos关键词: 数字游戏、电子游戏、严肃游戏、数字生态保护、文化参与、利益相关方参与、参与式保护

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Area of Science:

  • Conservation Science
  • Socio-Ecological Systems
  • Human Behavior Research

Background:

  • Environmental conservation requires effective methods for large-scale behavioral data collection.
  • Engaging diverse stakeholders in conservation decision-making is crucial but challenging.
  • Existing knowledge games have shown potential for data collection in ecological contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce EcoKnowGames (Ecological Knowledge Games), a transdisciplinary project.
  • To develop knowledge games for conservation science and data collection.
  • To integrate game development with ecological modeling for predictive socioecological models.

Main Methods:

  • Explored existing knowledge games (Power Up!, RESTORE) for data collection on ecological trade-offs and restoration.
  • Developed an open-source game builder tool in partnership with a game studio.
  • Integrated player decision-making data with ecological modeling.

Main Results:

  • Power Up! collected over 57,000 player decisions on energy-biodiversity trade-offs.
  • EcoKnowGames provides a tool for researchers to create custom knowledge games without extensive technical expertise.
  • Established pathways from player data to predictive socioecological models.

Conclusions:

  • EcoKnowGames offers empirically tested tools for integrating human behavior data into socioecological models.
  • This approach addresses challenges in game-based research, including privacy and consent.
  • Provides a complementary method to traditional stakeholder engagement for conservation decision-making.