Connecting through Play by Design
Katherine Isbister · 2017
Game designers and developers have long been at the vanguard of creating technology-enhanced experiences to evoke and encourage connection among people. Consider for example the creation of home game consoles in the 1970s--a rich shared-screen engaging multi-person experience offered far earlier than business applications for computer-supported cooperative work that emerged in the 1980s [1]. Yet this aspect of the games field is under-appreciated by technologists as well as the general public.