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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
Broadening participation through scalable game design
Game development is quickly gaining popularity in introductory programming courses. Motivational and educational aspects of game development are hard to balance and often sacrific...
Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
EDUTAINMENT
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Little Big Difference: Gender Aspects and Gender-Based Adaptation in Educational Games
Computer games are tremendously successful and this is why the potential of using this medium for educational purposes is increasingly recognized and researched. However, as new le...
Christina M. Steiner, Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust, D...
AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
ScriptEase - Motivational Behaviors for Interactive Characters in Computer Role-Playing Games
ScriptEase is a tool that allows authors with no programming experience to create interactive stories for computer role-playing games. Instead of writing scripting code manually, ...
Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer,...
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Computer Games as Intelligent Learning Environments: A River Ecosystem Adventure
Our goal in this work has been to bring together the entertaining and flow characteristics of video game environments with proven learning theories to advance the state of the art ...
Jason Tan, Chris Beers, Ruchi Gupta, Gautam Biswas
FPLAY
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Intelligent adaptation of digital game-based learning
Games for learning cannot take the same design approach as games when targeting audiences. While players of entertainment games have the luxury of choosing games that suit them, s...
Brian Magerko, Carrie Heeter, Joe Fitzgerald, Ben ...