From gaming hordes to disaster response team

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2928, 2013, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Slay a monster, save a life. Playing their favorite game could help disaster relief efforts. Online game World of Warcraft has eight million players at any one time. Patrick Meler and his colleague Peter Mosur, who both co-founded the Internet Response League, want to tap into this resource to comb through the masses of digital information that accumulates during a real-world disaster.