Project Partner

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is responsible for the digital implementation of the content provided, so that a prototype of the serious game can be presented to a broad audience at the end of the project term. Precisely because we are dealing with complex phenomena, some of which are intransparent and linked via longer cause-and-effect chains, some of which also occur with a time lag and some of which include effects that cannot be grasped with human senses, simulation, blended learning and/or augmented reality tools must be used here if the systemic relationships are to be made "tangible" and the defined learning objectives are to be achieved. Acting in awareness of climate relevance works best in the long term and without cognitive effort with a deep, yet intuitive, playful understanding of these complex interrelationships.
With the help of Living Labs, an iterative prototype development is made possible together with users (farmers) in a co-prototyping workshop. The first version of the prototype "Model 1" will be made available during the project and evaluated with regard to usability and user experience together with participants in order to continuously improve the game mechanisms, among other things with usability and user experience tests (UUX tests).
The approach includes the use of different methods from the Living Lab context (cf. Echternacht et al. 2016: Methods in the Living Lab: Supporting user integration in open innovation processes) such as: Survey, Think-aloud, Design-oriented Scenarios, Business Model Navigator or Sustainability Checklists.