Who decided how much is a good jog on the Wii-Fit? Only the Nintendo is desperate to be my new personal trainer, bestest’ buddy. That surely means I need to know if it’s exercising me correctly.
The game was made by programmers, not Sports scientists or Olympic experts. So we assume the coders all had to do their respective research. Questions like, “If they’re overweight, should pound the fatty on cardio?”, “How much hula-hooping will give them a heart-attack?”. You trust that the makers found some good generic decisions and benchmarks for everybodies’ training levels.
So in the future, how are we going to feel trust for other types of training games as they get more personal? What about extremes like sexual help, drug re-habilitation, Alcoholics Anonymous? Or even more physiological training like counselling. I’m not talking brain training or mind puzzles. Imagine next, a physiologist app on the Wii or iPhone. It’s entirely possible.
I need to trust the that app about to tinker with my mind’s inner workings won’t leave me a crazy suicidal man but level me out.
So who decides what’s the right frame of mind the user should be in?
How will you deal with international markets? For example, Chinese people will think differently to those crazy presidential Alaskans. I’m different to Ben. Lee downstairs has different life experiences to the girls next to him.
Who decides what the best morals are? Nintendo, Google, MySpace?
Do we trust these personal training games will have our best interests at heart?
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