Infotainment

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Infotainment

• Ecosystem Change

Sven AartsTim BormansNick BuckersBram
EulaersMoon Kwan Yip
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Question

• What are the most critical factors causing
  ecosystem changes?

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Answer

• Drivers (natural or human induced factors)
• Indirect drivers
• Variable
• Direct drivers
• Measurable

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Answer

• Indirect drivers (always multiple
  interactive)
• Population change
• Change in economic activity
• Socio-political factors
• Cultural and religious factors
• Science and technology

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Answer

• Direct drivers (Constant and growing in
  intensity)
• Terrestrial Ecosystems
• Land cover change
• Marine Ecosystems
• Impact of fishing (coastal areas)
• Freshwater ecosystems
• Water regime changes
• Pollution

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Concept

• Traditional reports are boring.
• Solution?

? Interactive playful game
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Concept

• The game
• Lineair text with main information
• Interactive narrative text
• ? Based on figure

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Game

• Worldmap
• Select ecosystem
• Zoom in on the selected ecosystem
• Question What influenced this ecosystem?
• Answer Spoken message with extra information

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Example

• User sees the worldmap
• The user clicks on a specific ecosystem, for
  example on marine
• zoom in on this ecosystem, now the user needs to
  guess which is the most critical driver
• The user clicks on Overexploitation
• Now the user gets the spoken text Yes, indeed.
  About half of the commercially exploited
• Now the user can decide to read more information
  or to return to the world map (step 1)

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End

• Thank you for your attention

Sven AartsTim BormansNick BuckersBram
EulaersMoon Kwan Yip