Meaningful Play 2008 (East Lansing, MI, USA)

Meaningful Play 2008 is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the potential of games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.

Whether designed to entertain or for more “serious” purposes, games have the potential to impact players’ beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, and behavior.

The submission topics included several things related to user experience:

• Exploring meaningful applications of games (such as games to change attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors; to exercise specific cognitive functions)
• Issues in designing meaningful play (such as game design for specific audience segments; using psychology and neuroscience to design and understand games)

• Locales » Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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• Event type » Conference
• Locales » Detroit, MI, USA