Knowledge Games

Can games and gamelike applications help to provide a more organic way of collecting human data? Can apps help facilitate clinical trials and run research studies? Akili's new Project Evo seeks to enable everything from tracking patient behavior to improving cognitive...

Knowledge games come in all shapes and sizes. In general, these types of games help to produce new knowledge by enabling crowdsourcing, data analysis, and/or problem solving through a game. The classic example is Foldit, made by scientists and designers at the Universi...

How should we define knowledge games? Is this something new? Or are knowledge games a new term for an old phenomenon?

Most games are primarily used for entertainment and leisure purposes--which is great! But there are also a growing category of games with a new purpose...