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 •Design environment objects •Design environment objects Hanan Alnizami- week 7 2 presentation
Lit Review: sdsa 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 Hanan Alnizami- week 7 3 presentation
Motivation: sdsa • Job market demands • Low Numbers of enrollment Method: • Retain students in CS: • Useful games • Capstone game courses • Capstone game courses • Inspire new students and retain them • Encourage advanced students Hanan Alnizami- week 7 4 presentation
Game2Learn Project: sdsa • Summer 2005 • 10 week summer research experience • Six Students Hanan Alnizami- week 7 5 presentation
Saving Sera: sdsa • Two-Dimensional The Catacombs: The Catacombs: • Three-Dimensional Hanan Alnizami- week 7 6 presentation
Playtesting: (1)Summer 2005 sdsa Questionnaire and pre-testing Play games for 20 minutes each Post-test and interview results - 54% games could be used for HW. -Seriousness of the games Hanan Alnizami- week 7 7 presentation
Playtesting: (2) Fall 2006 sdsa -37% good balance between quest and play time -88% games are good HW assignments -88% liked play quest or requested more quests Future Plans: Future Plans: • More feedback analysis and investigating Hanan Alnizami- week 7 8 presentation
sdsa End of Lit Review Hanan Alnizami- week 7 9 presentation
Accomplished: •Basic Interface Design Hanan Alnizami- week 7 10 presentation
sdsa Accomplished (continue) : •Maya Modeling Hanan Alnizami- week 7 11 presentation
Problems: sdsa •Creating and implementing Timeline •Complexity of Maya •How I am going about it? •How I am going about it? -- Google --Forums Hanan Alnizami- week 4 12 presentation
sdsa Week 8 Plans: •Implement code •Update Interface Design •Update DMP website Hanan Alnizami- week 4 13 presentation
References: sdsa • 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 Hanan Alnizami- week 3 14 presentation
sdsa The End •Any questions or comments? Hanan Alnizami DMP Summer Internship Mentor: Dr. Tiffany Barnes 15 School: UNC Charlotte
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