Improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations
Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, System Design and Management Program, Engineering and Management Program, 2016.
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| author | Tiwari, Shishir |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1073582022-01-12T19:45:07Z Improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations Improving understanding of AFV market dynamics using interactive simulations Tiwari, Shishir David R. Keith. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering and Management Program System Design and Management Program. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division. System Design and Management Program Engineering and Management Program. System Design and Management Program. Engineering Systems Division. Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, System Design and Management Program, Engineering and Management Program, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-70). Interactive management flight simulators are becoming increasingly common as a tool for teaching key concepts in management and related fields. Advocates of flight simulators suggest that the active engagement of students with experimentation and game play may even lead to enhanced systems thinking capabilities. Through this thesis, I undertake an experiment to test this proposition, recruiting respondents from Amazon's Mechanical Turk online workforce. Using a three-group pretest-post-test design, I randomly assign respondents to complete one of the following: a) Read a report describing the results of the simulator, including actual screenshots from the simulator, to convey the same information about the AFV market in a conventional style (the control group). b) Undertake tasks using an interactive management flight simulator about the diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles given instructions but no results (treatment one) and c) Undertake the same tasks using an interactive management flight simulator about the diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles, with the aid of the report that also explains the results expected (treatment two). The simulator was built on several key concepts of system dynamics applied to alternative fuel vehicle market: the concept of consumer acceptance, platform utility, stocks and flows and the effects of time delays in a system's behavior. The results of this experiment demonstrate that the groups which used simulator (treatment 1 and 2) developed at least similar and in some cases, better understanding of the AFV market dynamics. I conclude that simulators can be an effective way to teach complex system dynamics principles and socio-technical interactions. by Shishir Tiwari. S.M. in Engineering and Management 2017-03-10T15:06:57Z 2017-03-10T15:06:57Z 2016 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107358 973333375 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 120 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Engineering and Management Program. System Design and Management Program. Engineering Systems Division. Tiwari, Shishir Improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations |
| title | Improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations |
| title_full | Improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations |
| title_fullStr | Improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations |
| title_short | Improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations |
| title_sort | improving understanding of alternative fuel vehicle market dynamics using interactive simulations |
| topic | Engineering and Management Program. System Design and Management Program. Engineering Systems Division. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107358 |
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