A formative study with 7 students and 3 instructors identified five key challenges impeding exploratory learning in existing supply chain simulations.¶

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q1 i? Participants in semi-structured interviews reported five challenges: limited contextual cues, insufficient timely feedback, constrained alternative-decision exploration, opaque agent reasoning, and inadequate visualizations. → Yanjia Li 2026

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Yanjia Li 2026¶

Yanjia Li, Kelcy Kexin Han, Tianrui Hu, Yi-Fan Cao, Huamin Qu, Sicheng Song. (2026). SupplyNet: Supporting Visual Exploratory Learning in Supply Chain via Contextual Multi-Agent Simulation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24694 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.24694

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Formative study with 7 students and 3 instructors using one-hour semi-structured interviews and exploration of the Root Beer Game. The five challenges (C1-C5) were summarized from interview and thematic data; no effect sizes apply.

"Despite acknowledging the utility of simulations in illustrating core SCM fundamentals, participants prominently reported five key challenges that impede students’ learning and exploration, which we summarized as follows:"

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