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FunPlogs – A Serious Puzzle Mini-game for Learning Fundamental Programming Principles Using Visual Scripting

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Ramtin Naraghi-Taghi-Off,

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Advances in Visual Computing: 14th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2019, Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, October 7–9, 2019, Proceedings, Part I

Pages 494 - 504

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33720-9_38

Published: 07 October 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Learning to program can be a tedious task for students. The intrinsic motivation towards games can help to facilitate the first steps in such learning tasks. In this paper we introduce FunPlogs – a serious puzzle mini-game for learning fundamental programming principles. We use visual scripting aspects within this game. These must be used by the students to solve spatial puzzle-like tasks. Within this game we integrate a user-driven content creation approach for the game, so that students can cooperatively create new levels. We show the feasibility of the game concept in a prototype implementation and indicate a high joy of use during a user study.

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Advances in Visual Computing: 14th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2019, Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, October 7–9, 2019, Proceedings, Part I

Oct 2019

717 pages

ISBN:978-3-030-33719-3

DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33720-9

Editors:
George Bebis
University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
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Richard Boyle
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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Bahram Parvin
University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
,
Darko Koracin
Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA
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Daniela Ushizima
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
,
Sek Chai
Latent AI, Palo Alto, CA, USA
,
Shinjiro Sueda
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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Xin Lin
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
,
Aidong Lu
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
,
Daniel Thalmann
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
,
Chaoli Wang
Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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Panpan Xu
Bosch Research North America, Palo Alto, CA, USA

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Holly MResch SPirker J(2023)An Asymmetric Multiplayer Learning Environment for Room-Scale Virtual Reality and a Handheld DeviceProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36042447:MHCI(1-19)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3604244
Checa DMiguel-Alonso IBustillo A(2023)Immersive virtual-reality computer-assembly serious game to enhance autonomous learningVirtual Reality10.1007/s10055-021-00607-127:4(3301-3318)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10055-021-00607-1
Pirker JDengel AHolly MSafikhani S(2020)Virtual Reality in Computer Science Education: A Systematic ReviewProceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology10.1145/3385956.3418947(1-8)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3385956.3418947

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