Title
Gaming And Interactive Visualization For Education - A Multi-Disciplinary And Multi-University Collaborative Project
Abstract
Most people are more perceptive to the geometric rather than the symbolic representation of information. In engineering disciplines, visualization combined with game characteristics can provide an essential mode to facilitate students' understanding of important and abstract concepts, and improve students' willingness to learn. In this project, game characteristics are introduced into course module design, but different from commercially available games in that the level of the contents and assessment tools in this project are meaningful to teachers, students, and parents. This paper focuses on the design of the Gaming and Interactive Visualization for Education system. Specifically, some initial design results from the three universities for three different courses plus the development of evaluation system will be presented. The system is expected to (1) offer interactions with gaming scenarios that can excite emotions, (2) provide an engaging learning experience of understanding engineering concepts by allowing students to visualize and interact with 3-D objects in a game scenario, (3) employ situated learning by exposing students to the type of challenges they will face in industry, and (4) fit better with the learning styles of the majority of engineering students. Copyright © 2009 by ASME.
Publication Date
12-1-2009
Publication Title
Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
Volume
8
Issue
PARTS A AND B
Number of Pages
599-609
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2009-87284
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
82155170646 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/82155170646
STARS Citation
Xu, Yunjun; Miekas, Charles; Siddique, Zahed; Ling, Chen; and Chowdhury, Sagar, "Gaming And Interactive Visualization For Education - A Multi-Disciplinary And Multi-University Collaborative Project" (2009). Scopus Export 2000s. 11343.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/11343