A review of outcomes and impacts of playing computer games
Dr Elizabeth Boyle
University of the West of Scotland, High Street,
Paisley, PA1 2BE
liz.boyle@uws.ac.uk
Games for entertainment, learning and behaviour change
* Over the last 40 years computer games have had a transformational impact on how we spend our leisure time and have increasingly replaced more traditional leisure activities
* More recently there has been much interest in and speculation about whether games could be used for learning and changing attitudes and behaviour but less empirical evidence that games work
Literature reviews of games at UWS
* At UWS we have been involved in carrying out a number of literature reviews on aspects of GBL
* In this presentation I will describe a literature review which aimed to examine evidence very broadly about the outcomes and impacts of playing computer games
* Focus was on positive impacts
* Will highlight some interesting papers
* Psychologist’s perspective!
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