Massively Multiplayer Online Science

Attila Szantner

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Pages:: 103–110

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848884380_012

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Massively Multiplayer Online Science is a new, innovative way for citizen science to connect scientific research projects with video games by injecting tasks to be solved as a seamless gaming experience. Research tasks are completely integrated with game mechanics, narrative and visuals. Converting a small fraction of the billions of hours spent with playing video games will have a huge impact on scientific research, and can change how video games’ expertise is perceived. While citizen science solutions helped scientific research to achieve significant results, they also have issues that need to be overcome – acquiring new contributors and keeping a long-term engagement are among the most severe ones. We propose a solution with the project MMOS that gives an adequate answer to these challenges, and open up new channels between citizens and researchers.

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Levelling Up: The Cultural Impact of Contemporary Videogames

E-Book ISBN:: 9781848884380

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2016

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