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Lead: Dr. Tiffany Barnes Members: Amanda Chaffin (Ph. D. Student), Andrea Nickle (Ph. D. Student), Antoine Campbell (Undergraduate), Eve Powell (Ph. D. Student), Katelyn Doran (Undergraduate), Micheal Eagle (Ph. D. Student) Congratulations and Welcome to our REU Summer 2009 Members: Antoine Campbell, Rachel Brinkman, Christie Thornton, Bethany Miller, and Thomas Pfifer Former Team Members Include: Alex Godwin, Henry van Eseltine, Michelle Chamberlain, Rachel Beers, David Markham, Dimitris Couchell, Isaac James Moore, Jr., Johnny Hopkins, and a couple of others. |
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Game2Learn is an ongoing project dedicated to the gain and retention of students in the computer science tract. In order to achieve this goal, we are building video games that teach introductory computer science concepts as homework tools for the professors to utilize in the classroom. We hope that by harnessing the inherant motivation in video games, we can get the students to do more homework for the courses and learn more in the process. We are also dedicated to the idea of creating more diversity in the computer science courses and, therefore, create our games with the idea towards gaining more women and minorities. For more information on what the team is doing, check out our blog! Click here for the REU Powerpoint Template for the weekly meetings! |
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1. Barnes, T., E. Powell, A. Chaffin, H. Lipford. Game2Learn: Improving the engagement and motivation of CS1 students. In ACM GDCSE 2008. 2. Teresa A. Dahlberg, Tiffany Barnes, Audrey Rorrer, Eve Powell, Lauren Cairco: Improving retention and graduate recruitment through immersive research experiences for undergraduates. SIGCSE 2008: 466-470 3. Barnes, T., H. Richter, A. Chaffin, A. Godwin, E. Powell. (2007). Game2Learn: Building CS1 Learning Games for Retention. Accepted by ITiCSE2007, Dundee, Scotland, June 2007. 4. Barnes, T., H. Richter, A. Chaffin, A. Godwin, E. Powell, T. Ralph, P. Matthews, and H. Jordan. (2006). Game2Learn: A study of games as tools for learning introductory programming. Submitted to SIGCSE2007, Kentucky, USA, March 2006. 5. Barnes, T., H. Richter, A. Chaffin, A. Godwin, E. Powell. (2006). The role of feedback in Game2Learn. Submitted to CHI2007, San Jose, CA, April 2006. 6. Chaffin, A. (2005). Game2Learn: Designing a game to teach computer science. Abstract and poster presented at the North Carolina Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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Amanda's Master's Thesis Prototype |
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