Thursday, August 23, 2007

Serious Games

At work, I've had the opportunity to participate on a "serious games" project, which looked at the use of online games to convey environmental or health messages (while still being entertaining and challenging). As a result, I've done a little reading in this area and it's sort of a fascinating world.

This story is just the newest twist--it seems an online role-playing game inadvertently developed a plague and real-life academics are studying it to learn about how epidemics spread in society:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293920,00.html

1 comment:

Sharon GR said...

That's an amazing story.