University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Richard Davidson published an article Thursday aiming to persuade video game designers to team up with scientists to create video games that are beneficial to consumers, contrasting traditional views that video games do not stimulate your mind.
Davidson primarily studies human well being and creating strategies to improve overall happiness. He said he and University of Rochester professor Daphne Bavelier studied video games to discover ways video games can have more positive effects on people, by promoting mindfulness and pro-social behavior.
“I think its important that [these games] be created because a lot of people are spending a lot of time interacting with games,” Davidson said.
Davidson is also currently working on a project with Games + Learning + Science, a UW-Madison group that researches video games, to develop and test video games targeted at middle-school children to improve mindfulness and cooperation.
