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Games for Searching Technology Landscapes

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Frontiers in Gaming Simulation (ISAGA 2013)

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The value of gaming simulation for the search process in innovation projects is currently unknown. This paper studies this value in the railway sector. Based on models of search, we build a typology of different search strategies. In a case study we focus on several innovation projects that have either used real-world case studies or gaming simulation as a test method. We found that the use of gaming simulation has two interesting influences. Firstly, they allow searchers to apply a lucky-shot search strategy by which they can recognize promising solutions further outside the local optimum. Game players help to determine the robustness of the solution by searching neighboring configurations during and after the gameplay. Secondly, we found hints that search breadth is limited to the extent that game players are able to recognize the simulated system. We portray both the opportunities and threats for gaming simulation in innovative projects.

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  1. Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Jop van den Hoogen & Sebastiaan A. Meijer

  2. Division of Traffic and Logistics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sebastiaan A. Meijer

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  1. School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Division for Traffic and Logistics, Gaming and Participatory Simulation Labs, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sebastiaan A. Meijer

  2. School of Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Enterprise Simulation Laboratory SimLab., Aalto University, P.O. Box 15500, 00076, Aalto, Finland

    Riitta Smeds

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van den Hoogen, J., Meijer, S.A. (2014). Games for Searching Technology Landscapes. In: Meijer, S.A., Smeds, R. (eds) Frontiers in Gaming Simulation. ISAGA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04954-0_19

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