playware

English

Etymology

From play +‎ -ware.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

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)?

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