Can Gaming Make Us More Social?
- Christopher Intagliata for sciencefriday.com February 7th, 2014
- Source: http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/02/07/2014/can-gaming-make-us-more-social.html
As technology advances, it draws us ever closer to our four-inch smartphone screens. But Katherine Isbister, research director of the Game Innovation Lab at New York University's Polytechnic Engineering School, imagines a future where technology turns our attention to other people—not avatars. One of her projects, Pixel Motion, repurposes surveillance camera video feeds to create a collaborative street game.