playwareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

playware (uncountable)

1. children's toys that take the form of electronic hardware or software
   • 2000, Justine Cassell, ‎Henry Jenkins, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games

     This astonishing breakthrough into the previously dormant market for computer-based playware for girls ushers in a retooling of technology […]

   • 2006, Anne Allison, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

     By crafting playware that not only appeals to the needs and desires of postindustrial kids but also tethers the latter to a New Age capitalist imagination, Japan is emerging as a toy maker and toy marketer of millennial times.

   • 2010, Bo Kampmann Walther, Heidi Philipsen, Lise Agerbæk, Norbert Wildermuth, Lars Bo Løfgreen, Anette Grønning, Cynthia Grund, Jesper Pilegaard, Designing New Media (page 9)

     What is the pedagogical potential of such so-called 'playful media' as computer games, playware, and personalised, location-based media technology (e.g. pervasive games)?

アナグラム

• playwear