Critters in the classroom

Anderson, Eike Falk; McLoughlin, Leigh

doi:10.1145/1282040.1282048

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“…High dynamic range (HDR) is an image technology that displays a wider brightness range and contrast, revealing more picture details and vivid colors and reflecting realworld visual effects. It is widely used in movies [1], games [2], and medicine [3] to provide excellent results and a more immersive experience for users. However, due to the limitations of camera sensor technology, most consumer cameras can only capture low dynamic range (LDR) images with a brightness of 0.1-100 nits, and image information outside this range will be lost, far from the requirements of 0.0005 nits to thousands of nits for HDR images.…”

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HDR-DANet: Single HDR Image Reconstruction via Dual Attention

Ma,

Zhang

2024

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Restoring high dynamic range images with a single low dynamic range image is a challenging task due to the limited brightness range captured by most consumer camera sensors, leading to missing details in overexposed or underexposed areas of the image. The current methods suffer from weak reconstruction ability for inconspicuous complex features in the extreme exposure area, resulting in arti-facts still appearing in the extreme exposure area after reconstruction. This paper proposes an end-to-end network based on dual attention to solve this problem. Specifically, this paper designs a pixel-level spatial attention mechanism with luminance mask to refine the spatial attention to the pixel level, and can focus on inconspicuous feature areas in the overexposed and underexposed regions. This paper also designs a concentrated channel attention mechanism to maximize the use of image context information, accurately assigning the channel weight and effectively extracting the complex features in the image. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations show the superiority of our approach over state-of-the-art methods.

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HDR-DANet: Single HDR Image Reconstruction via Dual Attention

Ma,

Zhang

2024

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“…Gamified learning methods successfully and efficiently allows students to enter the Flow Experience, increase their learning motivation, and place them in the best possible learning state. This turns programming into something C. Chang, Y. Yeh, S. Hsu, Y. Chen interesting [9,1]. Students are filled with satisfaction when they are able to make something out of nothing.…”

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Using game design to enhance the learning motivation of programming courses

Chang,

Yeh,

Hsu

et al. 2023

IIAI Letters on Informatics and Interdisciplinary Research

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The ability of computational thinking can be improved through learning programming design and practicing logical thinking and problem-solving skills. However, the cognitive load of programming courses can be heavy, and students from various majors may not have sufficient knowledge about computer science. To address this, innovative teaching methods and content should be considered to reduce learning anxiety and improve motivation and performance. This study aims to redesign the Python programming course. In the first stage, a traditional lecture will be used to teach the basic concepts of programming. The CodeCombat platform will be introduced in the second stage, utilizing game-based learning strategies to teach Python programming. In the third stage, the curriculum will integrate the Pygame module for game design and implementation. After each stage of implementation, students will be given a questionnaire on learning motivation. The questionnaire will collect data on students' motivations, student work, and student thoughts for statistical analysis. According to the statistical results, the overall average score of students' learning motivation in the third stage is the highest, while the first stage has the lowest score. Therefore, it can be concluded that the teaching method of learning programming through game design is most effective in improving students' motivation to learn.

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“…Some of these tools, such as Greenfoot (K€ olling, 2010) and Program your Robot (Kazimoglu, Kiernan, Bacon, & Mackinnon, 2012), enable learners to proactively program the behavior of various actors, introducing a degree of interactivity in the learning process. Others, like Alice (Cooper, Dann, & Pausch, 2000) and Meadow (Anderson and McLoughlin, 2007), present students with 3D game-like environments aiming to further facilitate the learning process via familiar representations.…”

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Teaching and learning logic programming in virtual worlds using interactive microworld representations

Vosinakis¹,

Anastassakis²,

Koutsabasis³

2016

Brit J Educational Tech

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Logic Programming (LP) follows the declarative programming paradigm, which novice students often find hard to grasp. The limited availability of visual teaching aids for LP can lead to low motivation for learning. In this paper, we present a platform for teaching and learning Prolog in Virtual Worlds, which enables the visual interpretation and verification of program results in a straightforward fashion and requires students to adopt a collaborative problem‐solving approach. The results of the pilot application and student‐centered evaluation of the platform are encouraging regarding group learning performance and user experience. The paper contributes to current practice of teaching and learning LP by proposing a metaphor and a system that can empower the educational process with toy world examples visualized in a shared 3D environment.

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Critters in the classroom

Cited by 28 publications

References 26 publications

HDR-DANet: Single HDR Image Reconstruction via Dual Attention

HDR-DANet: Single HDR Image Reconstruction via Dual Attention

Using game design to enhance the learning motivation of programming courses

Teaching and learning logic programming in virtual worlds using interactive microworld representations

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