Effects of Games on Developing Production Management. Proceedings of the Workshopon Games in Production Management (3rd). Held in Espoo, Finland on June 27-29, 1997

摘要

Games and simulations are great mehtods for experiential learning. The createawareness, understanding, and new knowledge about complex systems that would be very costly, even impossible to gain in practice through trial and error. For students, the simulations are a very effective way of experienceing and understanding conceptual theories and to prepare for the challenges of the professional engineer. For companies, simulations and games provide a unique possibility to experiment and learn future process designs before implementation Many of the papers in this proceedings discuss the possibility of applying advanced information tehcnology in the games; from Cyberspace simulation through the Internet Model Factory and the Enterprise Simulation Laboratory, to telematic CSCW planning of factory layout, and interactive multimedia simulation of individual operator work. Modeling a game to resemble reality well enougth to give right experiences is a tough challenge, which is even aggravated when we use software models. The research on the effects of games on learning is thus of great importance. (Copyright (c) Helsinki University of Technology 1997.)