Replication Data for: The Virtual River Game: Gaming using Models to Collaboratively Explore River Management Complexity

Serious games are increasingly used as tools to facilitate stakeholder participation and stimulate social learning in environmental management. We present the Virtual River Game that aims to support stakeholders in collaboratively exploring the complexity of a changed river management paradigm in the Netherlands. The game uses a novel, hybrid interface design that features a bidirectional coupling of a physical game board to computer models. We ran five game sessions involving both domain experts and non-experts to assess the game's value as a participatory tool. The results show that the game was effective in enabling participants to collaboratively experiment with various river interventions and in stimulating social learning. As a participatory tool, the game appears to be valuable to introduce non-expert stakeholders to Dutch river management. We further discuss how the hybrid interface combines qualities usually found in board and computer games that are beneficial in engaging stakeholders and stimulating learning.

严肃游戏（Serious games）正日益被用作促进利益相关者参与、推动环境管理领域社会学习的工具。本文介绍了一款虚拟河流游戏（Virtual River Game），其旨在支持利益相关者协作探究荷兰变革中的河流管理范式的复杂性。该游戏采用了新颖的混合界面设计，核心为实体游戏棋盘与计算机模型之间的双向耦合。我们开展了五轮游戏实验，参与者涵盖领域专家与非专家群体，以评估该游戏作为参与式工具的应用价值。研究结果表明，该游戏能够有效支持参与者协作试验各类河流治理干预方案，并推动社会学习活动的开展。作为一款参与式工具，该游戏在向非专家利益相关者介绍荷兰河流管理相关知识方面展现出显著价值。我们还进一步探讨了该混合界面如何融合桌面游戏与计算机游戏的典型优势，而这些优势均有助于吸引利益相关者参与并推动学习活动。