This seminar will take place on May 26 at 14:30, online via Zoom (link below)
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92964372098?pwd=Y0w1WHY3NHBZOUlMQ2pvaDNkbzIxZz09
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Summary
Decision-making processes supported by Operational Research (OR) often engage stakeholders. Engaging stakeholders beyond the ones having a representative mandate, i.e. engaging with the citizenry, is receiving growing interest. Community operational research (COR) has been engaging citizens in OR-supported processes since its beginning. The development of information and communication technology is creating new opportunities for broad citizen engagement. After a brief input on a systematic review of the OR literature to characterize the status of "citizens" in OR processes, Alice's talk will focus on tools enabling online preference elicitation from many respondents. Specifically, Alice will report on several studies, based on experiments and/or case studies, in which Alice investigated the effect of gamifying the interface for online weight elicitation in an attempt to make preference elicitation accessible, and enjoyable, for many.
Speaker's bio
Dr. Alice H. Aubert is currently a senior researcher at the Zurich University of Applied Science. There, she aims to combine the knowledge on MCDA that she acquired during her SNSF Ambizione fellowship at the Cluster of Decision Analysis (Dept. of Environmental Social Sciences, at Eawag --- the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) with her original background. She is by training an agricultural scientist specialized in environmental sciences. The last grant she was awarded enabled her to carry out an interdisciplinary project on citizen involvement in complex decision-making, in particular for wastewater infrastructure. The focus was on gamification and behavioural operational research.
Personal homepage: https://www.eawag.ch/en/aboutus/portrait/organisation/staff/profile/alice-aubert/show/