gaming for a better world and to generate collective intelligence
Abha Iyengar
Jane McGonigal (born 1976) is a game designer, game researcher, and author, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games (ARGs).
McGonigal writes and speaks about alternate reality games and massively multiplayer online gaming, especially about the way that collective intelligence can be generated and utilized as a means for improving the quality of human life or working towards the solution of social ills. She has stated that gaming should be moving "towards Nobel Prizes."[1] McGonigal has been called "the current public face of gamification".[2]
She has taught game design and game theory at the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California, Berkeley and she currently serves as the Director of Game Research & Development at Institute for the Future.[3] In 2006, she was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[4]
"Yearnings" my poetry collection available at:
http://www.flipkart.com/books/9380112176 and
serenewoods.com/book_details.php?id=419
" Flash Bites" my flash fiction collection: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/59782
The eye of a little god, four-cornered." Sylvia Plath, "Mirror"