Games with a Purpose (Gwaps)
Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Author(s): Mathieu Lafourcade, Alain Joubert, Nathalie Le Brun
Published Online: 3 JUL 2015 09:20PM EST
Print ISBN: 9781848218031
Online ISBN: 9781119136309
DOI: 10.1002/9781119136309
About this Book
Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system. Each of them can achieve, conscious or not, a small part of a treatment too important to be done by one. These are also "hunter / gatherers" of knowledge. Provided that the number of contributors is large enough, the results are usually better quality than if they were the result of the activity of a single person, even if it is a domain expert. This type of activity is done via online games.