Wishcycle

Reframing The Value Of Plastics Through Educational Game Design
WishCycle-Logo_POST.jpg
Reframing The Value Of Plastics Through Educational Game Design
Steve Love, Joshua Smith, George Chow, Dr. EunSook Kwon

Wishcycle

Reframing The Value Of Plastics Through Educational Game Design
WishCycle-Logo_POST.jpg

Research demonstrates how socially modeled consumer behaviors can be adapted with incentives; to encourage active learning of often tedious recycling rules, we present an interactive game called “WishCycle” for mobile devices that teaches players how to distinguish common plastics by augmenting the recycling experience with game elements. While the player’s attention is focused on a game, data about consumer preferences is compiled on the backend. The experiment gamifies an Implicit Association Test (IAT) mechanism to evaluate when test subjects reflexively categorize comparable stimuli into binary categories, then analyzes for biases. Our game perpetuates desirable behaviors by pairing real items that must be sorted for rewards and immediate feedback for each selection. The combination of recognizable products and positive reinforcement reframes the chore of recycling into a fun experience that educates consumers about sustainable consumption practices while also documenting how players interact with specific items.

 

Year: 2021