Lições aprendidas sobre a escolha e o desenvolvimento de ferramentas de entretenimento digitais em experimentos sobre divisão de recursos

Abstract

his work aims to group a set of knowledge learned and discoveries to choosing or designing digital entertainment tools for scientific experiments in psychology, specifically concerning resources division. The theme resources division is extensively studied in psychology and makes use of economic experiments to investigate aspects of the evolution of cooperation, justice, altruism and selfishness in humanity. The greater involvement of the participants in the experiments imply the improvement of the results listed for scientific research. Tools with entertainment is a viable way to bring the engagement of the participants in the experiments. Researchers in psychology usually have no knowledge needed to develop digital entertainment tools, such as serious digital games. During the systematic review did not find any work that measured the impact of digital entertainment tools in experiments where there is decision making on resource division. Nor is there a guide that shows the paths already made by other researchers that lists the existing digital tools that are available for use. To measure the impact of digital instruments, this study was divided into five stages consisting of a systematic review of the literature, interviews with researchers in psychology, a survey of researchers from several countries on the use and design of such digital tools, a process of generating new ideas of tools and transform some of these ideas in real-world applications. Each step has generated results that are the lessons learned from what to do and what to avoid when choosing or designing digital entertainment tools for experiments on resources division. Proposals for future work have been suggested, including the continuity of this work for the deepening of this guide.