Will Akili's Project Evo Get FDA Approval?
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 symptoms. The company calls their product "Electronic Medicine" because it involves diagnostic tools and therapeutic applications that look and feel like video games. But are they video games or just gamified me
5 Knowledge Games
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 University of Washington. In this game, players try to figure out how proteins are structured and folded by manipulating virtual animations of proteins. Other games help players contribute cancer data analysis (Play to
What are Knowledge Games?
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: that of generating new knowledge for society. Instead of games that teach you something we already know, these games produce new knowledge that is not yet known or accessible. So, instead of a game teaching yo
