Affective Walkthroughs and Heuristics: Evaluating Minecraft Hour of Code

GhasemAghaei, Reza; Arya, Ali; Biddle, Robert

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58515-4_3

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“…Serious Game Design For Playful Exploratory Urban Simulation Lan Vu level programming [18]. With its gameplay characteristic, Minecraft's ability for modeling and its geo game characteristics makes it qualify to be implemented as a research tool to engage participants with urban planning processes [16].…”

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Serious Game Design For Playful Exploratory Urban Simulation

Hong¹,

Wang²

2021

Proceedings of International Symposium on Grids &Amp; Clouds 2021 — PoS(ISGC2021)

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The year 2020 has stricken humanities with the ferocious COVID-19. During this period, regulation and restriction are active to mitigate the spread while simultaneously causing massive behavioral change globally. While the post-pandemic situation has created new habits, rules, and limitations to restrict traveling, it also offers opportunities to introduce the citizens an interactive technology solution to explore their urban space and neighborhood effortlessly and risk-free. This paper proposes the use of Minecraft, a sandbox game, and its gameplay to design an interactive serious game-based platform for collaborative urban exploration in a playful, immersive approach. The prototype within this paper applies the digital twin concept and its principles for the realistic re-creation of a virtual Dihua Street of Dadaocheng, an old town and a tourist hotspot in Taipei, Taiwan. In a serious-game environment that is both a playground and a working platform, users can cooperate with others, create dynamic user-generated content. As they explore while sharing their knowledge and experience in the virtual open space, users are also engaged in serious urban planning tasks. This paper's main objective is to present the preliminary data of top priority users' satisfaction with game elements or features to develop a serious game-based urban exploration platform while demonstrating the proof-of-concept of the urban digital twin.

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Serious Game Design For Playful Exploratory Urban Simulation

Hong¹,

Wang²

2021

Proceedings of International Symposium on Grids &Amp; Clouds 2021 — PoS(ISGC2021)

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“…Pode-se dizer que o CW nãoé um método amplamente utilizado para avaliar jogos com propósito educacional, embora existam trabalhos nesse sentido [Farrell e Moffat 2014, GhasemAghaei et al 2017, Yáñez Gómez et al 2017. Qualquer que seja o propósito de um jogo, deve-se sempre avaliar se seu conteúdo e estrutura estão bem integrados, a ponto 1 https://hourofcode.com/us/learn 2 https://studio.code.org/courses IX Congresso Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (CBIE 2020) Anais do XXXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE 2020) que seja impossível distingui-los.…”

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“…Dada sua popularidade, a plataforma Code.org tem inspirado trabalhos de pesquisa com diferentes objetivos e abordagens. Jogos como "Labirinto Clássico" ou "Hour of Code Minecraft", por exemplo, já foram alvo de análises detalhadas [Martins et al 2016, GhasemAghaei et al 2017. No geral, as pesquisas têm confirmado a efetividade de jogos tutoriais do Code.org no desenvolvimento do Pensamento Computacional, embora identifiquem lacunas e questões ainda a serem exploradas.…”

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Investigando Dificuldades em Recursos do Code.org: Aplicação do Método do Percurso Cognitivo ao Tutorial Artista da Hora do Código

Charão¹,

Ritter²

2020

Anais Do XXXI Simpósio Brasileiro De Informática Na Educação (SBIE 2020)

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Jogos tutoriais da plataforma Code.org têm se popularizado como atividades em larga escala para promover o Pensamento Computacional e desenvolver habilidades de programação. Há pesquisas que avaliam aspectos desses jogos a partir de dados coletados junto a usuários. Neste trabalho, propomos outra abordagem, explorando um método de avaliação de usabilidade -- o percurso cognitivo (cognitive walkthrough). Tal método propõe uma inspeção detalhada da interface com o usuário, conduzida por especialistas. Aplicamos o método ao tutorial "Artista" da Hora do Código, na plataforma Code.org, e identificamos pontos em que o jogo apresenta obstáculos cognitivos aos usuários. Tal resultado pode ser útil a todas iniciativas que se apoiam no Code.org para desenvolver o Pensamento Computacional.

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“…We also review studies that focus on promoting the learning of beginners in programming, establishing how simple and non-overloaded programming environments contribute to learning [45], [46]. Another aspect that has been evaluated is the affectivity associated with the learning process of novices on programming environments [47].…”

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Programmer eXperience: A Systematic Literature Review

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Programmers use various software development artifacts in their work, such as programming environments, design documents, and programming codes. These software artifacts can be studied and improved based on usability and User eXperience (UX) factors. In this paper, we consider programmers to be a specific case of users and analyze different elements that influence their experience in this specific context. We conducted a systematic literature review of papers published over the last ten years related to 1) the definition of the Programmer eXperience (PX); 2) the PX, UX, and usability factors regarding the programming environments, design documents, and programming codes; and 3) sets of heuristics to evaluate the software development artifacts mentioned before. We analyzed 73 articles, and the results obtained show that: 1) the important elements that influence the PX are the motivation of programmers and the choice of tools they use in their work, such as programming environments; 2) most of the identified studies (59%) aimed to evaluate the influence of the PX, UX, and usability on programming environments; 3) the majority of the studies (70%) used methods such as usability tests and/or heuristic evaluation methods; and 4) four sets of heuristics are used to evaluate software development artifacts in relation to programming environments, programming languages, and application programming interfaces. The results suggest that further research in this area is necessary to better understand and evaluate the concept of the PX.

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Affective Walkthroughs and Heuristics: Evaluating Minecraft Hour of Code

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Serious Game Design For Playful Exploratory Urban Simulation

Serious Game Design For Playful Exploratory Urban Simulation

Investigando Dificuldades em Recursos do Code.org: Aplicação do Método do Percurso Cognitivo ao Tutorial Artista da Hora do Código

Programmer eXperience: A Systematic Literature Review

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