Jane McGonigal interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
summary
A social game called SuperBetter launched into closed beta after being invented to recover from a mild traumatic brain injury and then tested in a clinical trial at Ohio State University Medical Center, with a pilot at Zappos where about 500 employees, plan for 5,000 are playing; the first version is a web platform, a mobile release is planned next year; team of seven full-time staff plus outside developers and scientists from Stanford, UC Berkeley and UPenn claim the mechanics are clinically backed and already helping players.
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