KNOWLEDGE GAMES: HOW PLAYING GAMES CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS torrent

Author: Karen Schrier
Publication Date: May 13, 2016
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10: 1421419203
ISBN-13: 978-1421419206
Pages: 280 pages
Format: pdf
Size: 18M

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Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier’s Knowledge Games, which seeks to uncover the potentials and pitfalls of using games to make discoveries, solve real-world problems, and better understand our world. For example, so-called knowledge games―such as Foldit, a protein-folding puzzle game, SchoolLife, which crowdsources bullying interventions, and Reverse the Odds, in which mobile game players analyze breast cancer data―are already being used by researchers to gain scientific, psychological, and humanistic insights.

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