Accepted Contribution

BENCHMARKS - Creating a serious game to educate and collect data regarding soil health  
James Sprinks (Earthwatch Europe)

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Short Abstract

Hi! I am James! You might know me from projects such as CROPS, ProBleu, MICS, BENCHMARKS, and a range of cameo roles.

Abstract

Through my work in the Horizon Europe-funded project BENCHMARKS, I am interested in how citizen science gamification and serious games can aid in relating seamingly abstract issues concerning soil health to people's real-life concerns. In other words, can such an approach be used to forge an understanding on a topic, that whilst is clearly very important to biodiversity, climate mitigation, food security etc., is perhaps harder to link to the general public's everyday concerns.

Workshop W16
Games for good: Games and gamification for Citizen Science