In order to measure individual propensity to climate communication, a team led by the City University of Hong Kong created a text-adventure game that allows players to explore a non-Earth world guided by a ChatGPT-based in-game character. The researchers collected in-game dialogues of players conversing freely with the character, and player choices from designed game mechanics, to explore correlations with player personality and climate attitude.
In a study on the game1, the researchers found that, while players’ political and climate beliefs affect their conversational content in the game, their actions in the game are pro-climate-leaning despite these differences. The work explores the application of ChatGPT-based generative tools to design interactive systems for positive social purpose, particular the assessment of participant attitudes for more specific interventions.
- See Zhou, Suifang, Latisha Besariani Hendra, Qinshi Zhang, Jussi Holopainen, and RAY LC. ‘Eternagram: Probing Player Attitudes in Alternate Climate Scenarios Through a ChatGPT-Driven Text Adventure’. Version 1. Preprint, arXiv, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2403.18160. ↩︎