Tag: gaming
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Should Game Companies Be Regulated Like Casinos?
Companies that produce games are getting sophisticated in their use of behavioral design to get you to spend more money. In this HumanTech podcast episode we discuss whether they’ve crossed a line from video gaming to video gambling, and whether they should be regulated like the casinos are. You can subscribe to the HumanTech podcast through…
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What’s Wrong With Gamification?
A couple of years ago “gamification” was a hot topic. Product managers of software, apps, and internal company intranets and training programs attempted to take the factors that make games engaging and apply those to non-game digital products. The results have largely been less than successful. In this podcast episode we talk about what makes a…
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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #119 — Games Can Enhance Brain Flexibility
When my son was about six years old, we were shopping in Target. He saw a group of ten-to thirteen-year-olds playing video games on the demo machines, and was fascinated (video games were not part of his life at that time), so he stopped to watch. Not wanting him to get too interested, and also…
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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #105 — Video Games Increase Perceptual Learning
When my son was about 6 years old, we were shopping one day in a large department store when we walked by a section of demo video games. A group of 10-to 13-year-olds were intensely playing the games and my son was fascinated. I was one of “those parents” who didn’t allow any video games in…
