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Presentation Week 7 Hanan Alnizami CRA-W DMP Summer 2008 Mentor: Dr. Tiffany Barnes Graduate Supervisor: Evie Powell Thursday July 09,2008 sdsa Plans for week 7: Study old Dance Tool Interface Design new interface Java code


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Presentation Week 7

Hanan Alnizami CRA-W DMP Summer 2008 Mentor: Dr. Tiffany Barnes Graduate Supervisor: Evie Powell Thursday July 09,2008

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Plans for week 7:

  • Study old Dance Tool Interface
  • Design new interface
  • Java code
  • Design environment objects

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  • Design environment objects
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Lit Review:

Game2Learn: building CS1 Learning Games for Retention

  • Dr. Tiffany Barnes, Eve Powell, Amanda Chaffin, Alex Godwin
  • Dr. heather Ricther

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Motivation:

  • Job market demands
  • Low Numbers of enrollment

Method:

  • Retain students in CS:
  • Useful games
  • Capstone game courses

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  • Capstone game courses
  • Inspire new students and retain them
  • Encourage advanced students
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Game2Learn Project:

  • Summer 2005
  • 10 week summer research experience
  • Six Students

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Saving Sera:

  • Two-Dimensional

The Catacombs:

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The Catacombs:

  • Three-Dimensional
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Playtesting: (1)Summer 2005

Questionnaire and pre-testing Play games for 20 minutes each Post-test and interview results

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  • 54% games could be used for HW.
  • Seriousness of the games
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Playtesting: (2) Fall 2006

  • 37% good balance between quest and play time
  • 88% games are good HW assignments
  • 88% liked play quest or requested more quests

Future Plans:

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Future Plans:

  • More feedback analysis and investigating
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End of Lit Review

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Accomplished:

  • Basic Interface Design

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Accomplished (continue):

  • Maya Modeling

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Problems:

  • Creating and implementing Timeline
  • Complexity of Maya
  • How I am going about it?

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  • How I am going about it?
  • - Google
  • -Forums
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Week 8 Plans:

  • Implement code
  • Update Interface Design
  • Update DMP website

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References:

  • Barnes, T., Richter, H., Powell, E., Chaffin, A., and Godwin, A. 2007.

Game2Learn: building CS1 learning games for retention. SIGCSE Bull. 39, 3 (Jun. 2007), 121-125. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1269900.1268821

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The End

  • Any questions or comments?

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Hanan Alnizami DMP Summer Internship Mentor: Dr. Tiffany Barnes School: UNC Charlotte