Hint systems may negatively impact performance in educational games

O’Rourke, Eleanor; Ballweber, Christy; Popovií, Zoran

doi:10.1145/2556325.2566248

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“…In an attempt to study the effectiveness of hints, O'Rourke et al gathered data from 50,000 students and compared four different hint designs based on successful hint systems in intelligent tutoring systems and commercial games [52]. Their results showed that all four hint systems negatively impacted performance compared to a baseline condition with no hints.…”

Section: Supporting Information In Game-based Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Game-Based Learning Through Infographics in the Context of Smart Home Security

Bahrini¹,

Zargham²,

Pfau³

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Constantly evolving advances of smart home devices features require users to persistently keep up with safety concerns. While update reports and news articles are common ways to keep them informed, many users struggle in thoroughly understanding and applying available security recommendations. Educational games have proven to be an intuitive way to increase the incentive for awareness but many of them come short to convey the needed supporting knowledge. In an attempt to raise security awareness on smart home devices, we designed an educational game to demonstrate the latest security challenges and solutions. To ascertain users' attention and motivation, we have developed two versions of the game to contrast the integration of text and infographics as supporting knowledge which are the hints in this case. Our evaluations give evidence that viewing security-related content with a higher deployment of infographics improves users' performance significantly, increases users' interest in the topic, and creates higher levels of confidence solving security problems and complexities.

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Section: Supporting Information In Game-based Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Game-Based Learning Through Infographics in the Context of Smart Home Security

Bahrini¹,

Zargham²,

Pfau³

et al. 2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…By encoding textual explanations directly in the TPL algorithm's variable and function names, we can automatically generate detailed walkthroughs for any game level that can be solved by our TPL algorithm. This could improve the process of authoring tutorials and hints for educational games; previous research shows that this process can be challenging and time-consuming [19].…”

Section: Educational Puzzle Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To author just-intime feedback, the designer adds the comment //action to each line in the TPL algorithm that modifies the user interface. For example, for the subtraction procedure in Algorithm 1, this comment would be added to lines 11,16,19, and 22, all of which set the value of a grid cell to a new number.…”

Section: Just-in-time Feedbackmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework for Automatically Generating Interactive Instructional Scaffolding

O’Rourke

Andersen

Gulwani

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Interactive learning environments such as intelligent tutoring systems and software tutorials often teach procedures with step-by-step demonstrations. This instructional scaffolding is typically authored by hand, and little can be reused across problem domains. In this work, we present a framework for generating interactive tutorials from an algorithmic representation of the problem-solving thought process. Given a set of mappings between programming language constructs and user interface elements, we step through this algorithm lineby-line to trigger visual explanations of each step. This approach allows us to automatically generate tutorials for any example problem that can be solved with this algorithm. We describe two prototype implementations in the domains of K-12 mathematics and educational games, and present results from two user studies showing that educational technologists can author thought-process procedures and that generated tutorials can effectively teach a new procedure to students.

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