25 Sep Serious games and transport justice: Examining redistributive issues through classification and dictator games
| Título | Serious games and transport justice: Examining redistributive issues through classification and dictator games |
| Autor(es) | Giovanni Vecchio |
| Proyecto | Ciudades Accesibles |
| Año de publicación | 2024 |
| Revista | Journal of Transport & Health |
| Palabras claves | Serious game, Inequality, Transport justice, Redistributive policy |
| Resumen | Introduction Serious games can provide an important contribution to grasp how people perceive certain social issues related to transport and what factors are more relevant for them. The paper examines the use of serious games as tools to understand how citizens perceive possible inequalities related to urban mobility and what factors they consider relevant for (re)distributing resources among different social groups experiencing such inequalities. Methods Two serious games, a classification game and a dictator game, are applied in Santiago de Chile, a city characterised by significant inequalities that affect also transport. The games are tested in seven focus groups involving 33 participants, arranged according to their socioeconomic conditions. In the games, participants have to rank six fictional characters and distribute among them resources to finance their mobility needs. Results Participants tend to privilege socioeconomic variables such as income, rather than considering other significant individual features or the actual mobility needs of different characters. The resources are distributed focusing on the characters perceived as disadvantaged. Such perception of mobility-related inequalities does not show significant differences between participants from different social backgrounds. Conclusions Serious games can be helpful to anticipate how the general public may perceive controversial policy measures and to plan measures to avoid discontent, providing relevant elements to enhance the social acceptability of certain transport policy decisions. Their relevance is significant in the face of pressing societal issues, also in relation to health, although their implementation can be quite time- and money-consuming |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101817 |
| Autor(es) de correspondencia | Giovanni Vecchio, giovanni.vecchio@uc.cl |