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Video Games x Healthcare
Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them
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In a world awash with information and eye candy, “social gaming” is rapidly evolving as the largest existential threat to legacy media’s claim on engaged consumer attention. Trust and manipulation issues are also causing people to look beyond incumbent social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
Scott Broock • Beyond Broadcast and Social Media: Game Engines are the New Reality Engines
The truth is this: in today’s society, computer and video games are fulfilling genuine human needs that the real world is currently unable to satisfy. Games are providing rewards that reality is not. They are teaching and inspiring and engaging us in ways that reality is not. They are bringing us together in ways that reality is not.
Jane McGonigal • Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Second, the line between a diagnostic and a therapeutic start blurring. One version of the game could help assess whether a child has low-grade ADHD, and transition them into the therapeutic version of the game. Plus the game is already assessing and modifying itself based on in-game performance anyway so it has to have some diagnostic properties a... See more