Are you ready! To take early action? Embedding serious gaming into community managed DRR in Bangladesh

Marc Van Den Homberg; Lydia Cumiskey; Esther Oprins; Pablo Suarez; Anja Van Der Hulst

Are you ready! To take early action? Embedding serious gaming into community managed DRR in Bangladesh

Marc Van Den Homberg
, Lydia Cumiskey
, Esther Oprins
, Pablo Suarez
, Anja Van Der Hulst

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedings › Conference proceeding › peer-review

Abstract

This paper applies a Game-based Learning Evaluation Model (GEM) to assess whether the early warning - early action serious game "Ready!" is an effective component to add to existing Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training curricula, facilitated by NGO staff and applied at the community level. We developed a paper-based survey with 17 five-level Likert items and 15 open questions addressing the different GEM indicators to question 16 NGO staff, and used a simplified set of five questions with emoticons for 58 community people. The results showed that the staff saw great potential in embedding Ready! in DRR processes and that the community highly appreciated the game. The GEM was found to be a useful methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of this serious game. However, in the context of a lower educated and partly illiterate community, the importance of designing an individual, largely visual assessment instrument instead of a paper-based survey was acknowledged.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Editors	Leysia A. Palen, Tina Comes, Monika Buscher, Amanda Lee Hughes, Leysia A. Palen
Publisher	Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
ISBN (Electronic)	9788271177881
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2015 - Kristiansand, Norway Duration: 24 May 2015 → 27 May 2015

Publication series

Name	ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Volume	2015-January

Conference

Conference	12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2015
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Kristiansand
Period	24/05/15 → 27/05/15

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Climate change
Community-managed disaster risk reduction
Curriculum design theory
Early warning
Game evaluation
Preparedness
Serious gaming

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Van Den Homberg, M., Cumiskey, L., Oprins, E., Suarez, P., & Van Der Hulst, A. (2015). Are you ready! To take early action? Embedding serious gaming into community managed DRR in Bangladesh. In L. A. Palen, T. Comes, M. Buscher, A. L. Hughes, & L. A. Palen (Eds.), ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management; Vol. 2015-January). Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM.

Van Den Homberg, Marc ; Cumiskey, Lydia ; Oprins, Esther et al. / Are you ready! To take early action? Embedding serious gaming into community managed DRR in Bangladesh. ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. editor / Leysia A. Palen ; Tina Comes ; Monika Buscher ; Amanda Lee Hughes ; Leysia A. Palen. Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM, 2015. (ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management).

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Van Den Homberg, M, Cumiskey, L, Oprins, E, Suarez, P & Van Der Hulst, A 2015, Are you ready! To take early action? Embedding serious gaming into community managed DRR in Bangladesh. in LA Palen, T Comes, M Buscher, AL Hughes & LA Palen (eds), ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, vol. 2015-January, Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM, 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2015, Kristiansand, Norway, 24/05/15.

Are you ready! To take early action? Embedding serious gaming into community managed DRR in Bangladesh. / Van Den Homberg, Marc; Cumiskey, Lydia; Oprins, Esther et al.
ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. ed. / Leysia A. Palen; Tina Comes; Monika Buscher; Amanda Lee Hughes; Leysia A. Palen. Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM, 2015. (ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management; Vol. 2015-January).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedings › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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Van Den Homberg M, Cumiskey L, Oprins E, Suarez P, Van Der Hulst A. Are you ready! To take early action? Embedding serious gaming into community managed DRR in Bangladesh. In Palen LA, Comes T, Buscher M, Hughes AL, Palen LA, editors, ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM. 2015. (ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management).

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