RumbleBlocks: Teaching science concepts to young children through a unity game

Proceedings of CGAMES'2012 USA - 17th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 162-166

  Christel, Michael G ^a   Stevens, Scott M ^a   Maher, Bryan S ^a   Brice, Sean ^a   Champer, Matt ^a   Jayapalan, Luke ^a   Chen, Qiaosi ^a   Jin, Jing ^a   Hausmann, Daniel ^a   Bastida, Nora ^a   Zhang, Xun ^a   Aleven, Vincent ^b   Koedinger, Kenneth ^b   Chase, Catherine ^b   Harpstead, Erik ^b   Lomas, Derek ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

early childhood science education; Educational game; game development process; Unity game engine

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; EDUCATIONAL GAME; ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY; GAME DEVELOPMENT; GAME ENGINE; SCIENCE EDUCATION; STANDALONE APPLICATIONS; YOUNG CHILDREN;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TOWERS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84869008359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGames.2012.6314570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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