X-Delia

Information from the project website:

People’s behaviours, habits and emotional states when they make financial decisions will be under investigation as part of a new pan-European research project, xDelia, involving CIMNE, the Forschungszentrum Informatik, The Open University, the Game and Media Arts Lab at Blekinge Institute of Technology, the Erasmus Centre for Neuroeconomics, the Personal Finance Research Centre at Bristol University, and Saxo Bank.

Focusing on a broad range of subjects from traders and private investors to ordinary members of the public, the research team will be using new and emerging technologies to explore financial decision-making processes,including the role of emotion in people’s decisions. The aim of the project is to develop new, technologically supported approaches to training and support for non-formal learning in real-world settings which can bring about improvements in financial decision-making.

The project will develop new approaches to learning through serious games and to support for non-formal real-world learning. The project should increase our understanding of financial decision-making and deliver new approaches to decision-making research based on wearable sensor technology and serious gaming technology. The project will also use these technologies to develop new learning and support approaches for financial decision-making.

An outline of the focus of work that the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University UK will be involved with is given below.