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2013
Gutierrez, Lucio, Gouglas, Sean, deJong, Erick, Uszkalo, Kirsten, Stroulia, Eleni, Henry, Calen, Lucky, Shannon, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Boechler, Patricia, Illovan, Mihaela
The Campus Mysteries project developed an augmented reality game platform called fAR-Play and a learning game called Campus Mysteries with the platform. This paper reports on the development of the platform, the development of the game, and a assessment of the playability of the game. We conclude...
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2010
Carbonaro, Mike, Cutumisu, Maria, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Szafron, Duane
Enrollment in Computing Science university programs is at a dangerously low level. A major reason for this is the general lack of interest in Computing Science by females. In this paper, we discuss our experience with using a computer game construction environment as a vehicle to encourage female...
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2015-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Incoming university students have experience with and are engaged by avatar-based virtual worlds [VEs]. Are educators ready for them? An empirically supported, psychological theory of learning in 3D Virtual Environments, with principles for educational practice, would...
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2015-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG awarded 2016: Worldwide, approx. 683 million young people between the ages of 10 and 25 are registered in virtual worlds. Virtual environments have the potential to provide instruction encompassing the attributes that educational research has determined increase student...
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2006
Onuczko, Curtis, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Cutumisu, Maria, Roy, Thomas, Carbonaro, Mike, McNaughton, Matthew, Szafron, Duane
To compete in today's market, companies that develop computer role-playing games (CRPGs) must quickly and reliably create realistic, engaging game stories. Indeed, intricate storylines and realism that goes beyond graphics have become major product differentiators. To establish both, it's...
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2006
Cutumisu, Maria, Szafron, Duane, Roy, Thomas, Carbonaro, Mike, McNaughton, Matthew, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Onuczko, Curtis
Many computer games use custom scripts to control the ambient behaviors of non-player characters (NPCs). Therefore, a story writer must write fragments of computer code for the hundreds or thousands of NPCs in the game world. The challenge is to create entertaining and non-repetitive behaviors...
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2008
Schaeffer, Jonathan, Cutumisu, Maria, Waugh, Kevin, Siegel, Jeff, Szafron, Duane, Schumacher, Allan, Duff, Harvey, Gillis, Stephanie, Carbonaro, Mike, Onuczko, Curtis
The unprecedented growth in numbers of children playing computer games has stimulated discussion and research regarding what, if any, educational value these games have for teaching and learning. The research on this topic has primarily focused on children as players of computer games rather than...
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2007
Schaeffer, Jonathan, Siegel, Jeff, Duff, Harvey, Schumacher, Allan, Roy, Thomas, Gillis, Stephanie, Onuczko, Curtis, McNaughton, Matthew, Carbonaro, Mike, Waugh, Kevin, Szafron, Duane, Cutumisu, Maria
The traditional approach to implementing interactions between a player character (PC) and objects in computer games is to write scripts in a procedural scripting language. These scripts are usually so complex that they must be written by a computer programmer rather than by the author of the game...
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2010
Kahlke, Renate, King, Sharla, Carbonaro, Mike, Boechler, Patricia, Drummond, Jane, Greidanus, Elaine
Health Science teams are increasingly interprofessional and often require use of information communication technology. These shifts result in a need for health science students to learn online interprofessional teamwork skills early in their training. In response, one interprofessional...