Gamifying and evaluating problem structuring: A card game workshop for generating decision objectives

Serious games, gamification, or game-based interventions are increasingly used as tools to aid participatory decision-making processes, but their evaluation is often not very rigorous. Therefore, it still unclear whether really beneficial. We focused on the following overarching question: how effective specifically designed support processes. an illustrative case reflect this question. Using a published framework proposing that design processes of and intertwined, we simultaneously (1) intervention, card game workshop structure in which be used, (2) its procedure, formulating questions measure instruments based literature. pre-tested procedure small pilot study with 10 students. illustrate use for intervention generate objectives process about sustainable wastewater management. Through our case, identify future research opportunities designing evaluating effectiveness. found possible address dual challenge processes: informative engaging without telling participants what think tailored procedure. Designing valuable, because both strongly intertwined. However, conducting demanding requires collaborative efforts scientists, including across disciplinary boundaries. For instance, data collection effort could distributed among different groups increase sample size. This would allow control treatment(s) covering variation span confounding factors more broadly. All material made openly available foster research.