Post by leunas on Feb 10, 2007 4:50:14 GMT -5
Games tackle psychology. How does that make you feel?
First it was fear of heights, then it was smoking addiction. Now Reuters has a short story on a couple of games that are taking on mental problems usually reserved for a trained therapist.
DS Therapy from Tokyo's Dimple Entertainment takes the Brain Training concept to its extremes by giving a daily "measurement on your mental and emotional health" based on a few light-hearted questions. We can only hope the result is more accurate than the psuedo-scientific "Brain Age" given by its inspiration.
Mindhabits Booster, meanwhile, seeks to "reduce stress levels and improve self-confidence" in players by asking them to pick out a smiling face among a sea of frowning ones. Personally, we think seeing a lone happy person outnumbered by a horde of depressed automatons might have the opposite effect, but none of us are psychology professors, so what do we know?
www.joystiq.com/2007/02/09/games-tackle-psychology-how-does-that-make-you-feel/
First it was fear of heights, then it was smoking addiction. Now Reuters has a short story on a couple of games that are taking on mental problems usually reserved for a trained therapist.
DS Therapy from Tokyo's Dimple Entertainment takes the Brain Training concept to its extremes by giving a daily "measurement on your mental and emotional health" based on a few light-hearted questions. We can only hope the result is more accurate than the psuedo-scientific "Brain Age" given by its inspiration.
Mindhabits Booster, meanwhile, seeks to "reduce stress levels and improve self-confidence" in players by asking them to pick out a smiling face among a sea of frowning ones. Personally, we think seeing a lone happy person outnumbered by a horde of depressed automatons might have the opposite effect, but none of us are psychology professors, so what do we know?
www.joystiq.com/2007/02/09/games-tackle-psychology-how-does-that-make-you-feel/