Intelligence-based Serious Game for Environmental Awareness: System Model and Evaluation

The indiscriminate use of natural resources leads to the deterioration of the environment and the depletion of basic human necessities. This alarming concern entails improving environmental behavior to attain sustainability. By taking advantage of the recent technological advancement, this paper proposes the integration of serious games in developing a system model that enables environmental awareness by leveraging artificial intelligence and analytics. Initially, the serious game is evaluated in terms of usability and playability aspects. Results show that ease of use, learning opportunity, and immersion are significant for the end-users of the serious game, while feedback is considered the least significant among all constructs in the survey. In terms of the playability evaluation, effectiveness and immersion obtained higher ratings from computing and environmental science professionals. On the other side, this paper describes the core components of the proposed system model that may pave the way to improve the use of serious games for environmental awareness, through intelligence, and analytics. Further, this paper also presents the implications of the proposed model for education and practice.