Design Insights into the Creation and Evaluation of a Computer Science Educational Game

Horn, Britton; Clark, Christopher; Ström, O.; Chao, Hilery; Stahl, Amy; Harteveld, Casper; Smith, Gillian

doi:10.1145/2839509.2844656

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“…Games (and game-based curricula) provide a widespread medium to support the teaching and learning of CS and IT (Vihavainen et al, 2014). Games have been used to improve several aspects in CS and IT education, for example the lack of diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) elds, including CS, at both university and K-12 levels (Horn et al, 2016). Games have also been used as a means to enhance student engagement and motivation (Wallace et al, 2010).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Games for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Education: Review and Perspectives

Giannakos

Voulgari

Papavlasopoulou

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Educational Technology

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Digital games have gained significance as a new paradigm in education. Digital games are accessible and affordable to anyone and provide opportunities for at-scale teaching and learning. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in digital games to support computational thinking and programming in pre-college (K-12) schools. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are a rapidly developing field, attracting an increasing number of learners in the past few years. Although the confluence of digital games and AI/ML is an important and challenging field for teaching and learning researchers, a literature review has not yet been conducted in this area. The purpose of this work is to present a review of recent research into games to support AI and ML education. After a thorough search, relevant papers and games were selected and included in our qualitative content analysis. On the basis of this review, we present an overview of the relevant research papers and games, as well as showcased how different games provide a unique opportunity to teach a number of different concepts and topics in AI and ML.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Games for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Education: Review and Perspectives

Giannakos

Voulgari

Papavlasopoulou

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Educational Technology

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“…A utilização de um jogo virtual apropriado para facilitar o ensino pode fornecer ao aluno um ambiente lúdico que utiliza tecnologias de modo estimulante, promovendo a familiaridade e tirando o foco do quadro e do professor, criando condições favoráveis para que o aluno procure ser protagonista no desenvolvimento de sua base de conhecimentos e aprenda a relacionar e aplicar os conceitos da área de computação (Sajana, 2015;Horn, 2016;Cass, 2017;Tang, 2018;Xi, 2019). O jogo escolhido para este trabalho foi o TIS-100 produzido pela empresa Zachtronics (Zachtronics, 2019), que estimula a utilização de seus jogos no ambiente acadêmico e os disponibiliza gratuitamente para instituições de ensino para uso com fins educacionais.…”

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Gamificação e pensamento computacional: análise de uma experiência no ensino médio/técnico-integrado

Gomes

Rodrigues²,

Franco³

2020

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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar como o uso da gamificação pode favorecer o ensino/aprendizado da computação para alunos de cursos médio/técnico-integrado que não foram previamente alfabetizados na área. A estratégia adotada foi utilizar jogos digitais na sala de aula e investigar como esses auxiliam os alunos na construção de modelos mentais sobre os conceitos importantes ao pensamento computacional. No experimento foi utilizado o jogo TIS-100 da Zachtronics. A investigação sobre os modelos mentais foi realizada através de avaliações e observações de diálogos verbalizados pelos alunos durante as aulas. Concluímos que a gamificação é uma estratégia poderosa para auxiliar no desenvolvimento do pensamento computacional.

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“…PCG have has applied in EG approaching a varied set of subjects, such as math [Rodrigues et al 2017, Smith et al 2012, Butler et al 2015, Lara et al 2018, computing [Horn et al 2016, Dong and Barnes 2017, Valls-Vargas et al 2017, Dezani et al 2017, resource management [Aslam et al 2017, Luo et al 2017, Grappiolo et al 2011, evolution [Soule et al 2017], therapy [Duval et al 2017], and reading [Hooshyar et al 2018]. In those studies, PCG was mostly used to generate levels or its components (e.g.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The exceptions are the cases where the algorithms were analyzed [Soule et al 2017, Smith et al 2012, Valls-Vargas et al 2017, Dong and Barnes 2017 or no user evaluation was performed [Dezani et al 2017]. In contrast, works reporting user-based studies mainly evaluated users' behavior [Butler et al 2015], affective states' changes [Lara et al 2018], learning gains [Hooshyar et al 2018, Rodrigues et al 2017, Horn et al 2016, in-game performance [Aslam et al 2017], opinions [Duval et al 2017], and the proposed approach's performance [Luo et al 2017, Grappiolo et al 2011].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playing an Educational Game Featuring Procedural Content Generation: Which Attributes Impact Players’ Curiosity?

Rodrigues

Brancher

2019

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Understanding which and how attributes impact player experience can contribute to designing more tailored tools, providing concerns on how to improve these. However, there is a gap in the understanding of what impacts learners’ experience when interacting with Educational Games (EG) featuring Procedural Content generation (PCG) as these have been scantly used together. This article presents an empirical study on which attributes impact both math’s and game’s curiosity of players when interacting with an EG that uses PCG. The results show the attributes that led to higher or lower curiosity, as well aswhich of them are associated with it. Hence, advancing the understanding of what drives players’ curiosity, contributing to the design of EG that feature PCG.

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Design Insights into the Creation and Evaluation of a Computer Science Educational Game

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Games for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Education: Review and Perspectives

Games for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Education: Review and Perspectives

Gamificação e pensamento computacional: análise de uma experiência no ensino médio/técnico-integrado

Playing an Educational Game Featuring Procedural Content Generation: Which Attributes Impact Players’ Curiosity?

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