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Article

Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad

by
Brian Tomaszewski
1,
Amy Walker
1,
Emily Gawlik
1,
Casey Lane
1,†,
Scott Williams
1,†,
Deborah Orieta
1,†,
Claudia McDaniel
1,
Matthew Plummer
1,†,
Anushka Nair
2,†,
Nicolas San Jose
2,
Nathan Terrell
2,
Kyle Pecsok
1,†,
Emma Thomley
1,†,
Erin Mahoney
1,†,
Emily Haberlack
1 and
David Schwartz
2,*
1
Center for Geographic Information Science and Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
2
School of Interactive Games & Media, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
Casey Lane works in Gemini Engineering now; Scott Williams works in SUNY Geneseo now; Deborah Orieta works in Syracuse University now; Matthew Plummer works in Esri now; Anushka Nair works in Vicarious Visions now; Kyle Pecsok works in Clark University now; Emma Thomley works in Senator Amy Klobuchar Office now; Erin Mahoney works in Senator Charles E. Schumer Office now.
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9(6), 405; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9060405
Submission received: 8 May 2020 / Revised: 8 June 2020 / Accepted: 14 June 2020 / Published: 22 June 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gaming and Geospatial Information)
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Abstract

The need for improvement of societal disaster resilience and response efforts was evident after the destruction caused by the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. We present a novel conceptual framework for improving disaster resilience through the combination of serious games, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial thinking, and disaster resilience. Our framework is implemented via Project Lily Pad, a serious geogame based on our conceptual framework, serious game case studies, interviews and real-life experiences from 2017 Hurricane Harvey survivors in Dickinson, TX, and an immersive hurricane-induced flooding scenario. The game teaches a four-fold set of skills relevant to spatial thinking and disaster resilience, including reading a map, navigating an environment, coding verbal instructions, and determining best practices in a disaster situation. Results of evaluation of the four skills via Project Lily Pad through a “think aloud” study conducted by both emergency management novices and professionals revealed that the game encouraged players to think spatially, can help build awareness for disaster response scenarios, and has potential for real-life use by emergency management professionals. It can be concluded from our results that the combination of serious games, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial thinking, and disaster resilience, as implemented via Project Lily Pad and our evaluation results, demonstrated the wide range of possibilities for using serious geogames to improve disaster resilience spatial thinking and potentially save lives when disasters occur.
Keywords: serious games; geographic information technologies; urban games; spatial thinking; disaster resilience; geographic information systems (GIS); Hurricane Harvey; CityEngine; geospatial data serious games; geographic information technologies; urban games; spatial thinking; disaster resilience; geographic information systems (GIS); Hurricane Harvey; CityEngine; geospatial data

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Tomaszewski, B.; Walker, A.; Gawlik, E.; Lane, C.; Williams, S.; Orieta, D.; McDaniel, C.; Plummer, M.; Nair, A.; San Jose, N.; et al. Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9, 405. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9060405

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Tomaszewski B, Walker A, Gawlik E, Lane C, Williams S, Orieta D, McDaniel C, Plummer M, Nair A, San Jose N, et al. Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2020; 9(6):405. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9060405

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Tomaszewski, Brian, Amy Walker, Emily Gawlik, Casey Lane, Scott Williams, Deborah Orieta, Claudia McDaniel, Matthew Plummer, Anushka Nair, Nicolas San Jose, and et al. 2020. "Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 6: 405. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9060405

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Tomaszewski, B., Walker, A., Gawlik, E., Lane, C., Williams, S., Orieta, D., McDaniel, C., Plummer, M., Nair, A., San Jose, N., Terrell, N., Pecsok, K., Thomley, E., Mahoney, E., Haberlack, E., & Schwartz, D. (2020). Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(6), 405. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9060405

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