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Post by Komori on Sept 20, 2011 0:43:24 GMT -5
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Post by Pacmanite on Sept 20, 2011 1:12:53 GMT -5
I read the article, but I have no idea what the gamers did or how they were assigned a score. xD
It's cool that they somehow helped scientists working on curing a disease, though.
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Post by Omni on Sept 20, 2011 18:15:17 GMT -5
As for solving World Hunger - I was about to suggest playing a logistics game involving development plans, like Sim City (build those water pipes! Put another road in! Increase employment! Promote education!). But then I remembered it was mostly politics that prevents the adequate distribution of food resources to starving people. Yeah, it would be a lot easier for people to produce and distribute the food themselves if the government would step back and stop getting in the way. (So yeah, you may want to be careful about such comments unless you want a Discussions and Debates type of convo to start.  ) Anyway, that is rather interesting. I'd like to 'like' this article, though it's hard to without outright posting it on FB. |
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Post by Celestial on Sept 20, 2011 19:20:36 GMT -5
And people say that all video games are making the world worse. =P
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Post by Crystal on Sept 20, 2011 19:25:54 GMT -5
Homg. I just saw that at work today! xDDD I work for a company that produces medical software, and all the geeks thought it was very funny.
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Post by Dju on Sept 20, 2011 19:26:11 GMT -5
And people say that all video games are making the world worse. =P LOL! that's because they never played one before, that's for sure. XD I love games, they be epic! <3 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2011 20:01:09 GMT -5
And people say that all video games are making the world worse. =P Hardly! (Though I don't think the ultra-violent games where all your character does is kill people rather graphically are doing any good - but then again, I don't see why scientists would use those to cure anything.) I think this is so cool! Perhaps teens with AIDS who want to become mothers/fathers in the future could help out with this (and have fun), while possibly guarantee their cases of AIDS could be cured and thus not be passed on to any of their future offspring. And if scientists took it one step further, they could develop helpful games a young child (with or without AIDS) might enjoy playing (perhaps using animals as little characters or guides). I am so glad that we're getting closer to finding cures for things. I'm surprised no one has gone deeper into rainforests or oceans and seeing if there are any plants with medicinal properties that could quite possibly eliminate these diseases (but please keep the forests/oceans safe). You never know. |
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Post by Omni on Sept 20, 2011 23:22:16 GMT -5
Heh. Come to think, while not related to medicine or anything, I saw something related to how video games can be helpful the other day. Not in big detail, but Valve mentioned that they've heard about video games playing a role in education and decided to 'throw their hat into the ring.' Basically, picture a classroom using Portal to learn about physics, teamwork, critical thinking, and such. learningwithportals.com/  Also, my dad helped one of my... challenged cousins to learn some reasoning and such through World of Warcraft, helping her both interact with him, and with various things in the game world. |
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Post by Komori on Sept 21, 2011 0:42:13 GMT -5
Omni, that's a cool link.  Yeah, there've been studies showing that playing video games can help people improve their motor control and their depth perception and all sorts of things. But it's also cool that playing the games are helping other people outside of the one playing them. I'm actually pretty interested in helping decipher some ancient texts: ancientlives.org/ It's not as game-y, but it's that sort of addictive clicking that sure beats the heck out of voting for the Customization Spotlight. XD And if scientists took it one step further, they could develop helpful games a young child (with or without AIDS) might enjoy playing (perhaps using animals as little characters or guides). *confused* Why would scientists need to make games for little kids? They already have games like that; Leapfrog and the like. And if you mean making a kid's game to help them decipher protein molecules... I don't think you can simplify a protein molecule for a 3-year old to play with. Not one that would be helpful to scientists, anyway. I'm surprised no one has gone deeper into rainforests or oceans and seeing if there are any plants with medicinal properties that could quite possibly eliminate these diseases (but please keep the forests/oceans safe). You never know. People go into rainforests and oceans all the time to study the flora/fauna and their properties. But it's not as easy as "Let's take this new flower and rub it on an AIDS guy and see if it cures him!" XD |
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Post by Pacmanite on Sept 21, 2011 0:52:10 GMT -5
As for solving World Hunger - I was about to suggest playing a logistics game involving development plans, like Sim City (build those water pipes! Put another road in! Increase employment! Promote education!). But then I remembered it was mostly politics that prevents the adequate distribution of food resources to starving people. Yeah, it would be a lot easier for people to produce and distribute the food themselves if the government would step back and stop getting in the way. (So yeah, you may want to be careful about such comments unless you want a Discussions and Debates type of convo to start. ) Anyway, that is rather interesting. I'd like to 'like' this article, though it's hard to without outright posting it on FB. Ah, my apologies. I... don't know why I brought it up. I found this really cool thing that one of the articles linked to - Ancient Lives, an interactive tool that lets you help decipher ancient papyrus fragments that have until now been undeciphered and aren't even in order at all. I guess it's not really a "game" as such, more like a crowdsourcing project, but it's awesome. They've discovered a lost play by Euripedes, and an apocryphal gospel already. I just wish they had stuff like this in Latin, or if only I knew Greek. <3 Then I'd spend like half the time trying to recognise the words written on the fragments. edit: Ninja'd by Komori! |
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