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Related: this game grew out of Seth Cooper's PhD dissertation [1] "A Framework for Scientific Discovery through Video Games", which won the ACM Dissertation Awa
by willyg302 12y ago
Related: this game grew out of Seth Cooper's PhD dissertation [1] "A Framework for Scientific Discovery through Video Games", which won the ACM Dissertation Award in 2011. Although a lot of the content is Foldit-centric (protein algorithms, etc.), it still has a wealth of information on game design and gamification, well worth looking at for anyone interested in game development.
[1] http://grail.cs.washington.edu/theses/Cooper2011PhD.pdf http://grail.cs.washington.edu/theses/Cooper2011PhD.pdf
- mrdrozdov 12y agoI was lucky enough to see him speak at the University of Michigan (http://www.cse.umich.edu/eecs/etc/events/showevent.cgi?2665 http://www.cse.umich.edu/eecs/etc/events/showevent.cgi?2665). Also, I just finished reading REAMDE, and Fold.it is extremely similar to the fictional APPIS discussed in the book. It's still a fairly untapped area, looking to games in order to gain real life advantages. Although besides Fold.it, ReCaptcha, DuoLingo and the ESP game seem to be using related strategies to yield results of some degree.
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