Session Name: | Game Structured Hiveminds: Organizing People & Solving Problems with Fun |
Speaker(s): | Evan Brown, Joe Edelman, Ben Sawyer, Jerome Waldispuhl |
Company Name(s): | Entertainment Technology Center, Citizen Logistics, Digitalmill, McGill University |
Track / Format: | Game IT Summit |
Overview: |
The opening set of talks at Game IT focuses on the ability for games to help solve problems through organizing and engaging collaborative groups of people through gameplay and social networks. The opportunities happening here are still emergent but already several projects have exemplified the power of this opportunity. This set of talks seeks to further these discussions and offer exciting new ideas to game-based crowdsourcing, collaboration, and distributed activity and problem solving. |