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Instructional Games to Teach Computers
By Richard Nantel | July 17, 2007
The current issue of Wired magazine contains a story that provides an interesting twist on using games for learning. Luis von Ahn is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Rather than developing instructional games to help people learn, he designs games that are played by people to teach computers.
Computers are great at crunching numbers. But, they’re terrible at some tasks humans find easy such as evaluating what is aesthetically pleasing. To teach computers how to perform such a task, Luis von Ahn presents two people with photos and asks them to evaluate which is more attractive. With sufficient game time, a database of what’s pleasing to humans is created.
Wired magazine says you can try out these games at www.gwap.com
Topics: Instructional Games |
