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Webinars Complex Systems and COVID-19

Barcelona 11/06/2020

En breus tindrem uns Webinars sobre Sistemes Complexos enfocats en el Covid-19!!

Apunta't les dates:

11 June - Manlio de Domenico, FBK

18 June - Nuria Oliver, Data-Pop Alliance & ELLIS

25 June - Santiago F. Elena, CSIC

02 July - Alex Arenas, URV

Totes les xerrades es faran a les 16h.

Estigues atent a la nostra web o a la de Complexitat.cat per més detalls.

Webinars Complex Systems and Covid-19

UBICS products 27/05/2020

En breus tindrem uns Webinars sobre Sistemes Complexos enfocats en el Covid-19!! Apunta't les dates: 11 June - Manlio de Domenico, FBK 18 June - Nuria Oliver, Data-Pop Alliance & ELLIS 25 June - Santiago F. Elena, CSIC 02 July - Alex Arenas, URV Totes les xerrades es faran a les 16h. Estigues atent a la nostra web o a la de Complexitat.cat per més detalls.

Beques Master+UB - UBICS

UB grants 25/05/2020

Ja es poden demanar les Beques Master+UB per realitzar el TFM dins d'un grup de recerca UBICS. Podeu trobar tota la informació sobre les beques i com demanar-les en el següent link: http://www.ub.edu/beques/col.laboracio/ Heu de mirar l'apartat: Programa Màster+UB de captació d’estudiants per a cursar un màster universitari i incentivar vocacions científiques en el sí d’un grup de recerca. Curs 2020/2021 Els estudiants interessats en demanar aquestes beques hauran d’omplir el formulari de sol·licitud a la Seu https://seu.ub.edu/ajutsPublic/showPublicacion/136661. Recordeu que el termini de presentació de sol·licituds va del 21/05/2020 al 22/06/2020.

VI Festa de la Ciència UB (Virtual) - UBICS

UB Divulga projects 08/05/2020

Avui 8 de Maig podràs trobar el nostre Taller " Descobrint els Sistemes Complexos" a la web UB Divulga: http://www.ub.edu/laubdivulga/festacienciaub/festacienciaVI/sistemes_complexos.html

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Evaluating the effect of gamification on the deployment of digital cultural probes for children

Rodriguez, I ; Puig, A ; Tellols, D; Samso, K

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES 137 UNSP 102395 (2020)

abstract

This research proposes a digital Cultural Probe (CP) for children in the context of energy use and awareness. A CP is a user research method that allows participants to self-report by means of tools, artefacts, and tasks that they complete at their own pace. Our CP aims to gather data about the energy related habits and knowledge of the children and their families and also aims to provoke reflection and raise their awareness of energy and environmental issues. It is well known that the main drawback of CPs is their low completion rate and the consequent lack of gathered data. Based on the impact of gamification on users' motivation and engagement, we aim to test the hypothesis that "Gamification may encourage an active and fruitful participation of children in Cultural Probes". CP consists of four tasks designed to gather information about the children and their families' electric consumption and saving habits. We developed the CP as an Android app which was evaluated with children from two primary schools in Barcelona, who interacted with two different app versions (gamified and non-gamified). We designed a comparative experiment that gathered data on CP completion rate, CP task completion rate, and the time required to complete the CP. To our surprise, we found a slight difference in favour of the non-gamified app in all of these measures, though this difference was not statistically significant. However, the difference in the children's awareness of and attitude to energy consumption before and after the realisation of the CP was significant as measured by the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. This was not the case for the effect on energy awareness of the children's relatives. The lessons we learned, which may also prove to be useful for researchers that aim to design cultural probes, are that user research methods for children can be effective enough when designed to be interactive and dynamic (i.e. digital CPs) and that the number of CP tasks may also be a factor to take into account. When the number of tasks is low, the CP is likely to achieve a high completion rate and the additional effort of gamifying the application may be not worthwhile. Then, gamification may support a CP with a large number of tedious tasks. When designers want children to reflect on key issues, the CP should be thoughtfully designed because it is not easy to foster children's reflection and reasoning.