|
|
Kelvin's Research Page |
Projects from recent and distant past: Apologies, some of the links may be broken.
|
Games-Themed Assignments |
|
|
Funded by NSF, we study
approaches to build casual games APIs for teaching CS1/2 concepts. Here is the link to the details about this project: Learn
Programming by Building Casual Games |
|
|
|
|
Funded by Microsoft Research, we
study approaches to attract and motivate students with computer games-based
programming assignments. Here is the link to the details about this project: Games-Themed Assignments. |
|
Recent Projects |
|
o Kinect-Math: Uses the XBOX 360 Kinect
to help junior high students learn algebra kinesthetically. o Students: Jack
Chang and Jebediah Pavleas. o People talk about this
project: KinectMath Teaching Tool,
Classrooms of Tomorrow,
Channel-9,
UW Daily News,
UW Today,
GeekWire,
Microsoft Education
Taiwan (in Chinese). o Competitions: § Winner of “ What will you create”
contest held by KinectEducation.com.
§ Selection to the US Imagine Cup 2012
Final Round: software design. |
|
|
o Dream Coder: 2D RPG Game for teaching
and learning introductory programming courses. Faculty and students do not
need to have any background in either computer graphics or games; and
students have the option to compile their code in either game mode or console
mode without any modifications. o Students: Jack
Chang, Long Dang, Howard Lee, Vince
Ly, Antonio Martinez, Jebediah Pavleas,
Stephen Jonany. o Collaborator: Jason
Bay, Griptonite Games. |
|
|
o Experiment with teaching CS AP: Principles course using video
games, and animations. o Here is the course web-site (BCUSP 110) o People blog about this
course: CS AP at UWB. |
|
Recent Serious Games |
|
|
Web-game: Conquer The Campus:
Tell us what you think: Survey
(V1
Release: March 2011).
§ Mini-game: UWB Match’em : Tell us what you think: UWB Match’em Survey § Mini-game: Crow Defense:
Tell us what you think: Crow
Defense Survey § Mini-game: Crow Whisperer:
Tell us what you think: Crow
Whisperer Survey |
|
|
|
|
|
Web-game: Sammy goes to UWB.
(V1 Release: May 2010). Please share your experience playing this game: Web-game
Survey |
|
Zune-game: Come to campus, UW1-Reception Desk, you
can check out a Zune and play an augmented reality game on the Zune while you
explore our library solving a “who did it” mystery! (V1
Release: May 2010).
Please share your experience playing this game: Zune-game
Survey |
|
|
Android phone game: On your Android Phone, serve to Market Place
and search for UWB. Download the game, come to our campus and
help Sammy register/explore campus for the first day of class! (V1
Release: Oct 2010).Please
share your experience playing this game: Android-game
Survey |
|
|
Teaching and Learning of Computer
Graphics |
|
|
Funded by the National Science Foundation, we study approaches
to teaching and learning fundamental concepts in building interactive
computer graphics applications. Here is the link to the details about this project: Teaching Computer graphics. Courses benefited direction from this work include: CSS450 – Introduction to Computer Graphics. CSS451 – 3D Computer Graphics. |
|
Some stuff from a while ago. |
|
|
A while ago, I
worked on motion blur algorithms, and on distributing image reconstruction
over loosely coupled machines. Here are some details. |
Kelvin Home
| Kelvin's Research Page
| CSS Home
| UW Bothell
| UW Seattle
|
|
|
Last updated: May 2007 KS |
