WORKSHOP: "Short-course in dynamic human-environment games", by Andrew Bell

ICTA-UAB is offering a training workshop on games. This workshop is suited for researchers who would like to learn how to use games to answer research questions.

 

WORKSHOP: "Short-course in dynamic human-environment games"
 

By Andrew Bell (Cornell University) and Alex Pfaff (Duke University)

 

Dates. From 15th to 17th July, 2024
Time: From 9h to 16h
Venue: Sala Montseny (ICTA-UAB)

The full program is here. Those interested need to fill this form to register. (please fill it also even if you filled the last survey we circulated).

 

A 3+1 day workshop/short course for graduate students and early-career researchers covering:

• Games as research tools vs games as learning
• Where do we apply games (resource dilemmas)?
• What do we learn from dynamics, equilibria, interactions?
• What do games interventions look like? (surveys, experiments, debriefs, followups)
• Designing a game
• Coding a game
• Testing and tailoring a game
• Designing and implementing an experiment (context, process, sampling, pre-testing, permissions, training, data collection, field coordination, analysis)
   

This workshop is ideally suited for researchers who would like to conduct a games experiment, would like to learn a bit more about how to develop a full experiment, and who would like to be part of a community of common interest around games experiments.

Good things to come to the workshop with: 

1. Ideas of human-environment dilemmas or game designs to work on
2. A basic comprehension of the NetLogo agent-based modeling platform (whose participatory simulation capabilities we will use to develop games).  NetLogo documentation, user guide, basic tutorials and dictionary are all here