Interview: WowLens and a National Science Foundation grant help researchers mine player data

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5-11-2010 @ 1:14PM

Cataca said...

"government/tax payer monies is being used to figure out how to make wow a better game"

It's not being used to make wow a better game. It's being use to look at how social groups interact.

Learning to interact with a social group better impacts...pretty much everything and everyone.

Take my hospital for example (Also a government installation). Every employee has a computer that they use for almost every action. If a computer isn't involved then the action is at least documented in a computer.

A major problem is communication between different departments of the hospital. We could take data that is gathered from this addon and apply it to better structuring communication and interfaces within the department so that we may better interact with others.

You can apply this to just about everything that requires interaction between you and another person. Very valuable information in every venue!

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