High-level Cooperative Behavior Model of Online Summit Games

Abstract

In online summit game system (OSGS), a strategic game was designed to incorporate issues and conflicts between countries that allows players to take on roles in the gaming scenario to engage in a high-level cooperation. This study analyzed the intra-group interaction and high-level cooperation process of summit game. The Interaction Process Analysis (IPA) proposed by Bales is used as an analysis tool to analyze high-level cooperation in online summit games. The results show that, the players are very focused in accomplish tasks trying to give ideas, expressing feelings, giving suggestions and strategies. The setting of issues in strategy games strengthened the conflict between countries in each event, which enabled meaningful discussion, negotiation, and problem solving among students, which illustrate the high-level cooperations among group members.