Multi-Agent Participatory Simulations Between Experimental Economics and Role-Playing Games

In this paper, we present participatory experiments in economics and role-playing games from an agent-based simulations perspective. In particular, we try to compare these two traditions of participatory approaches to stress identities and differences. After having outlined the lessons of these traditions, we describe multi-agent participatory simulations as a new kind of participatory experiments combining agents and participation more closely, using as an example the methodology we developed to conduct experiments of this new kind.

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