A participatory card game is a participatory technique for modeling, analyzing and redesigning task flows. A card represents a task in a process respective task flow. Because of the similarity to usual playing cards, a participatory card game is easy to learn and to use by all stakeholders and can therefore support participative design.
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A Case Study on Collaborative Modeling of Environmental Decision Processes
Kathrin Kirchner (Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7336-6.ch009
Abstract
Environmental decision making has to deal with trade-offs between social, political, environmental, and economic impacts, with different stakeholders' views, which rely on expert knowledge and expertise. This chapter describes how such environmental decision processes can be explored, analyzed, documented, and formalized. Decisions in this problem area depend notably on expertise and experience acquired by all involved decision makers. In this chapter, a collaborative approach is developed and applied that integrates the stakeholders as a partner into the modeling process. After the decision process is documented using the card game CUTA4BPM, all information, which leads up to a decision, will be collected, systemized, and grouped using supplementary paper cards. The outcome of this modeling leads to a formalized model of the decision process. On account of this approach, the real decision process is modeled and increases trust in the decisions suggested by a decision support system later on. This collaborative approach is evaluated by a case study in crop planning.