Gamification of Crowd-Driven Environment Design

This article explores whether crowd-sourced human creativity within a gamified collaborative design framework can address the complexity of predictive environment design. is predicated on gamifying crowd objectives and presenting problems as puzzles. A usability study reveals that considered usable for task. Participants were asked to configure an puzzle reduce important metric, total egress time. The task was constructed be straightforward uses simplified probe understanding utility gamification performance collaboration. Single-player multiplayer designs outperformed both optimization expert-sourced same further single-player designs. iterations followed linear exponential decrease trends in time, respectively. Our experiments provide strong evidence toward interesting novel approach crowdsourcing