CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Learning Maker Skills By Building Game Props

CHS：小型：协作研究：通过构建游戏道具来学习创客技能

• 批准号: 2008028
• 负责人: Kayla DesPortes
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2008028&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Small; Collaborative; Research; Learning

Fabrication devices, such as laser cutters and 3D printers, enable ordinary people to fabricate their own physical objects. These tools are driving innovation and entrepreneurship. However, rising availability of fabrication devices does not correlate to a rise in education. Many designs that makers are creating suffer from practicality, durability, and reliability issues. One promising group for addressing this problem is young learners who have the potential to become the next generation of engineers and innovators. This project explores teaching skills for fabrication to high school and undergraduate learners through games. Recent advances in virtual-physical game play enable players to use physical props in a game. For instance, a physical fishing rod made from cardboard and sensors is cast by the player to acquire virtual fish in the game. While today these physical props are used to increase immersion, they are not yet used for teaching. With the funding from this award, the team of researchers investigate how the act of building a physical game prop can be used to teach players fabrication, electronics, and programming skills. This research will provide insights into what skills can be effectively taught through games and how designers can leverage game mechanisms to create immersive game play to facilitate learning. The project will develop and release as open source a suite of games for acquiring fabrication skills. It will engage diverse high school students, undergraduate students, and fabrication lab and makerspace communities as co-developers and users of the educational games. As games are developed, the researchers will use their network within the fabrication and educational communities to publicize and integrate the games into additional environments, from schools to summer camps to community organizations. By combining methods from the learning sciences, educational game design, human-computer interaction, and design-based research literature, this research will conduct an iterative design process to investigate: (1) knowledge maps connecting skills and concepts that can be integrated with game mechanics to teach new fabrication tasks, through conducting interviews, contextual inquiries, and landscape analyses; (2) theory and principles for designing and evaluating maker-learning games, including mechanisms for recording user interaction with the game, such as click analysis, time between tasks, and in-game user feedback; (3) implications for evaluating learners’ increases in knowledge and experiences, through mixed methods user studies that compare pre- and post-training learning gain and result in qualitative and quantitative findings; and (4) a game-fabrication infrastructure to facilitate the transfer of activities from one game to another and broaden the applicability of the maker-learning concept.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

激光切割机和 3D 打印机等制造设备使普通人能够制造自己的实物，这些工具正在推动创新和创业。然而，制造设备的可用性的提高与制造商的许多设计的增长并不相关。创造面临实用性、耐用性和可靠性问题的一个有前途的群体是有潜力成为下一代工程师和创新者的年轻学习者，该项目通过游戏探索向高中和本科生学习制造的技能。 .最新进展在虚拟物理游戏中，玩家可以在游戏中使用物理道具，例如，玩家可以投掷由纸板和传感器制成的物理钓鱼竿来获得游戏中的虚拟鱼。沉浸式游戏尚未用于教学。在该奖项的资助下，研究团队研究了如何使用构建物理游戏道具的行为来教授玩家制造、电子和编程技能。这项研究将提供见解。哪些技能可以通过游戏有效地传授，以及设计师如何该项目将开发并发布一套开源游戏来获取制造技能，它将吸引不同的高中生、本科生以及制造实验室和创客空间社区共同参与。 - 教育游戏的开发者和用户。随着游戏的开发，研究人员将利用他们在结构集成和教育社区中的网络，通过结合来自学校、夏令营和社区组织的方法，将游戏宣传到其他环境中。学习科学，教育游戏设计、人机交互和基于设计的研究文献，本研究将进行迭代设计过程来调查：（1）连接技能和概念的知识图谱，这些知识图谱可以与游戏机制相结合，通过访谈来教授新的制造任务(2) 设计和评估创客学习游戏的理论和原则，包括记录用户与游戏互动的机制，例如点击分析、任务之间的时间和游戏中的用户反馈； 3) 对评估学习者学习能力提高的影响；知识和经验，通过混合方法的用户研究，比较训练前和训练后的学习收益并得出定性和定量的结果；(4) 游戏制作基础设施，以促进活动从一个游戏转移到另一个游戏并扩大制作者的适用性； -学习概念。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。