Review of “Games To Explain Human Factors: Come, Participate, Learn and Have Fun!!!”

http://www.slideshare.net/group/games-to-explain-human-factors-come-participate-learn-and-have-fun

One of the first things to notice about this “blog” is that the name brings in a different audience than was probably originally intended. “Games To Explain Human Factors: Come, Participate, Learn and Have Fun!!!” seems like a site to show how video games can become a tool to help people learn about various aspects of being a human. Granted, my background with video games could bias this first impression, but I asked other friends and this was their impression as well.

Upon actually visiting the site readers will see that the blog isn’t even a blog at all, it’s a slide show of pictures from a training event where volunteers learned how to present games to other people. The type of games they present are games played with the human body, using different senses to trick the other senses of the body. The pictures posted on the site are silly and the program made to use them is obviously Microsoft Word. Younger/more technologically inclined users of the site will not even acknowledge it as a valuable resource because of its lack of design and inferior graphics.

As to the purpose of this site, it isn’t entirely clear. It seems like it is supposed to be used as an example of a successful event for this group, but there is only one member and it has not been accessed/changed since 2009. Overall I would not suggest using this site as a resource for scholarly work of any kind, but maybe as an example for what bad web design can look like.