Why games will take over our lives - top electric toothbrush

(CNN)--
If you think the electric toothbrush is high
Technician, wait until you hear about the Internet. Version enabled.
Jesse Schell, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and game designer, said the toothbrush would be hooked --up with Wi-
Internet connection within five years. The point?
If the whole internet knows how often and when you brush your teeth, then you have the motivation to brush your teeth more often.
Toothbrush manufacturers can also provide rewards for people who often use toothbrushes.
Say you brush your teeth twice a day for three months.
Companies like Crest or P & G can reward you with more coupons for toothbrushes because of your health
By then, the used bristles may wear out.
Dental hygiene says Schell-
And, really, almost everything else. -
Will be a game.
He thinks the "game process" is coming, when everything in our lives becomes a game ---
If not here. The Web-
Connected toothbrushes are just one example Schell mentioned in a recent interview.
Here's an edited transcript: CNN: You said there are games everywhere.
What exactly do you mean?
In short, we have seen games penetrate into our daily lives in a variety of interesting ways.
You go to Starbucks and you get points if you have a Starbucks card.
In fact, they have a complete leveling system.
The more visits you have, the more privileged and free soya-bean milk you will be able to enjoy, from green to gold.
We already have the whole economy.
At the same time, the emergence of all these technologies allows us to track new things, things we couldn't do before.
CNN: What are we tracking now?
This is a popular new example, this is a new game Foursquare, this is a game that uses mobile GPS to work.
We usually think, 'Oh, the GPS in my phone is useful if I need to go somewhere.
But there's no reason your GPS can't keep track of your location all the time.
In fact, why not play a game?
So in the Foursquare world, you can get territorial points based on all the places you visit.
If you are a person who likes to go somewhere more than others, you can be the mayor of that place unless someone else likes to go there more than you do, then they took over the position of mayor of the place.
The new video game system that tracks each joint of your body is coming soon.
For us, allow Microsoft to put three-
The dimension camera on your TV looks at you and if I 've heard it sounds like a big brother scene, but, nevertheless, that's what we allow.
CNN: Do you think our lives will be a game?
I think people will find a lot of their lives.
Choose the game, kind of like the ad collaboration we see
Choose a lot of our lives in the 20 th century.
Has it already happened?
I jokingly call this fusion of games a "game process": every moment in life is actually a game.
A lot of people are interested in this topic, so I am now writing a blog called gamepoc.
Do you know this Green Goose product? It will track how many bikes you ride. . .
It has a reward system based on how much gas you save?
There are a lot of things like this happening right now, and I think we'll see more and more things coming together.
CNN: What happens next? I think camera-
In the next 10 years, technology and tracking-based technology will be one of them, and we will see a lot of development.
The idea of cheap small cameras and disposable cameras will become quite normal.
When you combine it with the fact that we are used to touch
Interface and gestures based
Based on the interface, I think we will see these cameras in many places in order to interact with a lot of things.
You have Google glasses where you can take pictures like anything and it will tell you what it is.
We haven't really started using this game yet, but I think we will start.
If you look at their latest handheld device, Nintendo DSi, which has two cameras on it, people seem a bit crazy at first, but our idea is that you have a camera facing the world, A user facing camera so it can look at your face and research your face.
No one has yet fully figured out what this is.
CNN: What do you think this is?
I think they want to do facial tracking.
They want to play the game that tracks your face.
One thing I think we're going to start seeing is that big multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft will start installing cameras on your face, then they will map your expression to your head.
This is not technically difficult, and I think there is a lot of potential for meaningful emotional expression and communication.
Will this change our daily life?
Anyone who has a product that can feel the product being used. . .
They will want to create momentum for you to use the product.
So basically they will use it to make the game because the game is a reward --
The basic system that inspires us to do things. In fact, Oral-
B seems to be half
They already have a toothbrush when you brush your teeth.
It beeps every 30 seconds, which means it's time to change the angle.
So you make the four quadrants of your mouth, and when you finish all the four quadrants, it makes a little special beeps and then a happy face appears.
You don't get a happy face, you get a sad face if you don't brush your teeth correctly.
Now, it's not connected to the Internet yet, but, you know, it takes about five seconds to connect from the Internet.
They already have a scale using Wi.
Fi and connect to the Internet so that it is uploaded to the database every time you weigh, so that you can track your weight over time.
You can configure it to automatically post your weight if you want.
CNN: Is this interesting or beneficial for consumers?
It depends on the product.
What if it's a product that allows you to brush your teeth more, or if it allows you to brush your teeth not only, but also with floss?
Sounds healthy. giving.
But if you look at those who produce soda, they will try to motivate you to do something that is not very healthy.
I hate to think about the system that tobacco companies will come up with to motivate people.
Is Fun important because it will be a competition.
The 21 st century will be a war of concern to mankind.
CNN: Have you seen the negative effects of people being watched and tracked all the time?
We have a choice about what aspects of privacy we want to give up.
We have always made such a choice.
Anyone using Gmail decides, "Yes, I think it's OK for a big company to sniff every word of each email carefully
The email I sent and tried to automatically raise the profile of what I might want to buy and then pop up messages that distract me based on my interests, this information is specifically intended to distract me from the side of the page.
So you can say, "Yes, it's kind of creepy.
Many of us say it's okay.
I am willing to give up on this.
"Does Amazon know that every word of every book you read is OK?
Do you feel comfortable? Maybe you are.
Let everyone know if you can eat corn flakes?
OK, but you probably don't want people to know that you're using certain products. . . .
Part of my biggest concern is the abnormal incentives that these systems will try to create.
To a large extent, the company will not care about our health and welfare.
They will care, "Can I manipulate you to do something that will help the company?
"CNN: Should we make regulations to prevent this from happening?
It's hard for me to imagine.
These things will spread to us one by one, depending on what people can take away and what people can tolerate?
Why are we attracted to the game?
The main attraction of the game is that you know the game can win.
This is an unusual game that cannot win.
In real life, we will encounter such problems, and these problems are very complicated.
You look at the problems you face at work, in a relationship, or in your family, as if there were no obvious wins or obvious failures.
In the game, however, things are clear and clear.
The game shows you the challenges you can cope with, and then congratulates you on your success in those challenges.
This is something we don't get in our daily life.