SCCL members and HCDE PhD students Daniel Perry and John Robinson, and SCCL Director Cecilia Aragon, are co-authors on a recently published article in the September issue of the Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience journal. The article, Game Design for Bioinformatics and Cyberinfrastructure Learning: A Parallel Computing Case Study, reports on data collected during a year-long human-centered game design process, in which design ideas generated by high school students were bridged with bioinformatics and parallel computing learning concepts. They provided a human-centered game design methodology, as well as a case study, in which this methodology is applied to the design of parallel computing-focused mini-games. Co-authors of the paper also include Stephanie Cruz, University of Washington Center for Workforce Development; Jeanne Ting Chowning, University of Washington’s Institute for Science and Math Education; and Mette Peters, Sage Bionetworks.
SCC lab members, families, and friends enjoyed food, drink, and good company at a potluck at Lab Director Dr. Cecilia Aragon’s house this past week. Grilled meats, salmon, and veggie dishes made for a delicious way to celebrate another successful year, and we noshed with views of Lake Washington in the background. Many thanks to everyone who made this event possible!
HCDE PhD student and SCC lab member Daniel Perry has been awarded a UW Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year. The Graduate School Presidential Dissertation award was established with support of the University President and assists PhD candidates in the final stages of completing their dissertations. He is the first HCDE student to receive the award.
Perry’s dissertation examines how game-based learning experiences vary based on the specific perceptual, affective, and computational capacities of each learner. His research builds upon a co-design process and studies he conducted with high school students as he developed the game MAX5, a computer game where players use bioinformatics tools to stop a lethal influenza outbreak in the game. He hopes that his research will be of use to other game designers and educators who want to broaden participation to reach diverse types of learners. Perry is advised by SCC Lab Director Dr. Cecilia Aragon.
A paper on “Collaborative Visual Analysis of Sentiment in Twitter Events” by SCCL members Michael Brooks, John Robinson, Megan Torkildson, Ray Hong, and Cecilia Aragon has been accepted to CDVE 2014, the 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. This paper presents research on Agave, a web-based visual analytics tool for collaborative exploration of large tweet data sets. Click here for more information about Agave. The conference will be held September 14-17, 2014, in Seattle, WA.
