Enhancement of Safety Imagination in Socio-Technical Systems with Gamification and Computational Creativity

We present a novel framework to enhance safety imagination in socio-technical systems with gamification and computational creativity. This relies on the usage of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) for systemic analysis of socio-technical system. In our proposal information on the system structure and organization both as-imagined and as-actually done is elicited from sharp-end operators by means of a gamified and participatory approach and through an iOS app. Then such knowledge is organized as a domain ontology compliant with FRAM and is used to feed a computational creativity system (i.e. Creativity Machine) and to support the analyst in conceiving FRAM models. Even if the approach is general, here we address a case study concerning healthcare and, in particular, an accident happened during an abdominal surgery.