World of Warcraft players are studied by UCI

Many parents complain that MMORPG kill their children’s’ expectations and waste their children’s’ time. Of course, some of gamers abandon themselves to the online game, but most of them have learned a lot of from the game, such as, cooperation, communication and relaxation.

Right now, UCI to study World of Warcraft players what can be learned from creative collaboration in games about mediated collaboration in general? Can these principles be translated to other environments such as work? Creative collaboration. Apparently more than 10 million players of the popular online game World of Warcraft do it. And now, the National Science Foundation is tapping into the phenomenon to learn more about how and why creative collaboration occurs in an online environment. To date, most “creative collaboration” studies have been conducted in a laboratory setting. This is among the first to study collaboration within the context of an online environment.

A $100,007 grant has been awarded to UC Irvine to study creative collaboration in an online game, using the massively popular multiplayer game as its subject. The award was granted this month and will expire in August of 2009.

According to the grant award: “This research will examine creativity as a collaborative act, and will investigate creativity in a distributed online context. The research will focus on modding - the creation and distribution of player-created software modifications that extend the game - as an act of creative collaboration. What is the effect of collaboration on creativity? What motivates players to maintain engagement? How does the game software itself support or hinder collaboration? What interaction tools do players use to undertake creative collaboration? What can be learned from creative collaboration in games about mediated collaboration in general? Can these principles be translated to other environments such as work, or does the very context of 'play' have inherent qualities that cannot be easily translated?”

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