From: BARRETEAU Olivier
Olivier.Barreteau@montpellier.cemagref.fr
ISEE conference in Sousse beginning of march 2002 featured a thematic
session on role games, models and negotiation. This session fostered
active discussions among participants with various experiences on the
joint use of role games and models in neogotiation processes. These
discussions have lead to exchanges relative to empirical experiences
as well as implication of chosen protocols and some beginnings on the
multiple purposes on such tools.
These multiple purposes have been found potentially blurring the whole
process when taking place is the same experiment. It strengthens the
importance of specifying purpose of joint use(s) of these tools when
relating and analysing experiments with the tools. When dealing with
models and interactive methods, tools can't be considered
independently from their methodology of use. But these multiple
purposes of joint uses of models and role games in relation with
negotiation or co-ordination issues may enrich discussions in
comparing protocols and improving methodologies.
In order to go on with these rich interactions which happened in
Sousse, a new mailing list is opened: smaj.
It will broadly deal with interactive modelling, from extension
specialists using such kind of tools in their activity, to
experimental scientists (economists, psychologists...) using some kind
of role playing games to improve and test their theoretical knowlegde
on behaviours.
The purpose of the list is mainly to exchange on:
- practices (e.g. feed back on experiments to be discussed)
- methodological patterns
- more classical information such as Call for papers, conferences,
etc. relevant to the list
You are kindly invited to join the list, through sending an Email to:
sympa@cines.fr, with SUB smaj <name> <surname> in the message