Northeastern faculty iPad projects: Creative Industries Program (Gaming)

Mark Sivak is using an iPad to assist in curriculum design and creation of apps and workshops in games. His goal: to allow groups of students to explore course topic pairs in context. Students are using applications such as Cut the Rope, Angry Birds, and Bejeweled 2 in class to explore the coordination of geometry and linear algebra with respect to game development. The course also uses apps to look at principles of calculus and physics to illustrate position, velocity, acceleration, and randomness.

Students in Mark's course, GAME3300 Game Interface Design, are using the iPad to learn about human-computer interaction and information display and processing. Several app games including “Strategery”, “Puerto Rico”, and “UNO” are being used. Students also created a paper prototype of a touch interface for a board game based on the touch interactions of the iPad. Read his blog posts about the project.

Posted on 01/23/2012

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