Online Image Labelling - The ESP Game

Online Image Labelling - "The ESP Game"

A game from Carnegie Mellon University designed to add labels to images on the World Wide Web.

People play with one other player, anonymously assigned, to see how many labels they can agree on in a given time.

URL: ESP Game

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2004-05-31 17:05:22 |

Planning - Ground Zero Planner

Planning - "Ground Zero Planner"

“The Ground Zero Planner allows you to design the World Trade Center site the way you think it should look. You can drag icons representing different ideas for the site, like housing, parks, and a memorial, onto a map of Ground Zero."

Original game results were collected and are available here.

From Gotham Gazette.

URL: Ground Zero Planner

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2004-06-11 09:38:09 |

Politics - Find Your Inner Republican

Politics - “Find Your Inner Republican”

An online quiz game designed to coincide with the Republican National Convention in New York City.

From Gotham Gazette.

URL: Find Your Inner Republican

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2004-06-11 09:25:15 |

Privacy - Carabella Goes to College

Privacy - "Carabella Goes to College"

A Flash game from wwwprivacyactivism.org

"This game is about finding the right balance between privacy and convienience. As you play through the game with Carabella, you will learn how everyday activities can erode your privacy. You will also find information about ways to protect yourself against threats like identity theft and consumer profiling, and annoyances such as spam.

"Like most new college students, Carabella will spend the week before the start of classes doing routine tasks that we take for granted: opening a bank account, receiving new checks, using a credit card, and shopping at a grocery store that has a "club card". She will learn how such simple activities can have major consequences for her privacy.

As you play through the game with Carabella, you will learn how everyday activities can erode your privacy. You will also find information about ways to protect yourself against threats like identity theft and consumer profiling, and annoyances such as spam."

URL: Carabella Goes to College

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2003-12-27 14:47:57 |

Public Health - Outbreak at Water's Edge

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This interactive publoic health discovery game will introduce you to the world of public health as you help discover the source of the outbreak that has hit the small community of Watersedge and stop it before more residents get sick.

URL: Outbreak at Water's Edge

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2006-07-16 14:10:24 |

Strategic Crisis Simulation Exercises - Silent Prairie, Dark Portal

Strategic Crisis Simulation Exercises - "Silent Prairie," "Dark Portal"

A series of simulation games or exercises on strategic problems.

Silent Prairie is about a bioterrorisam threat, a hypothetical epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), maliciously started. Dark Portal "Dark Portal" involved a series of physical and cyber attacks directed against the homeland.

Created by the National Strategic Gaming Center and run by the National Defense University. Participants include members of Congress, senior Executive Branch officials, military leaders, and state officials

URL: Dark Portal

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2004-05-31 17:40:53 |

Transportation - Fix Your Commute

Transportation - "Fix Your Commute"

"Is your commute just endless frustration? Now do something about it."

A web-based app where players play with roads and budgets to alleviate gridlock in the Seattle area.

From the Snohomish County Herald in Washington State.

URL: Fix Your Commute

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2003-10-01 21:46:40 |

World Hunger - Food Force

World Hunger - FOOD FORCE

A game about world hunger from the United Nations World Food programme, designed to educate young people about world hunger and the work of the agency.

Premise: A major crisis has developed in the Indian Ocean, on the island of Sheylan. WFP is sending in a new team to step up the World Food Programme’s presence there and help feed millions of hungry people.

The game represents too many parts our real world, where 852 million people lack enough food to eat and World Food Programme teams deliver food aid using not only airplanes but a fleet of ships and thousands of trucks. Play the Food Force game, learn about food aid, and help us work towards a world without hunger.

Developed by Deepend, a computer design studio based in Rome, and game developers Playerthree in London.

URL: BBC Article

URL: Download (200 MB)

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2005-04-21 06:39:13 |