Productive Play: The Convergence of Play and Labor in Online Games and Virtual Worlds
Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie
ICT. Morie was invited to participate in the NSF-sponsored workshop.
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Location: Beckmen Center, University of California, Irvine
Host: Bonnie Nardi - UC Irvine, Celia Pearce - Georgia Institute of Technology, Jason Ellis - IBM
The goal of this workshop is to explore the intersection between work and play in networked play environments. What sorts of labor-like efforts do players make in online games and virtual worlds? What is it about play that motivates teamwork and productivity? And how can we leverage the successes of computer games and virtual worlds to create more successful distributed work environments? This workshop aims to explore emerging approaches to mixing work and play fruitfully—how incorporating play can make workers more effective and creative, and teams more cohesive.