Mapping gaming practice to scientific practice

MAPPING GAMING PRACTICE TO SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE Mark Chen University of Washington @mcdanger | markchen@uw.edu

PARTNERSHIP•  UW Computer Science & Engineering •  Center for Game Science (CGS) •  Zoran Popović, Seth Cooper, Erik Anderson, and Yun-En Liu•  UW Learning Sciences •  Advancing Games as Innovative Learning Environments (AGILE) •  Philip Bell, Andrew Shouse, John Bransford, Nancy Vye, Mark Chen, and Theresa Horstman•  UT Austin •  Taylor Martin and Carmen Petrick•  Funded by DARPA Engage Program

FOLDIT

WHAT DO PLAYERS DO IN FOLDIT?

PLAYER SOLUTIONSSCORE TIME

PLAYER SOLUTIONS SCORE TIME

HOW DO PLAYERS GET BETTER? COMMUNITY!

HOW DO PLAYERS GET BETTER? COMMUNITY!•  Community around Foldit is rich and engaging

BIOCHEMISTRY NOT JUST FOR EXPERTS…•  Emergence of Prior knowledge of biochemistry skilled players with little None biochemistry High school / Basic training One undergraduate course Majored in biology or similar•  Game players PhD in chemistry or organic chemistry beat protein PhD in biochemistry 30 years ago experts Professionally involved

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO PLAY FOLDIT?To become competitive, one has to do two things: 1)  learn the science 2)  participate in the community

FUTURE PLANS•  In-depth studies of gaming practice and expert practice •  Assess engagement and learning •  Foldit •  Refraction •  DNA •  and more!

FOLDIT TEAM THANKS: UW Dept. of Computer Science UW Dept. of Biochemistry Zoran Popović Seth Cooper Adrien Treuille Janos Barbero David Baker Firas Khatib Andrew Leaver-Fay Kathleen Tuite David Salesin Joshua Snyder Daniel Suskin Philipp Krähenbühl Alex Cho Snyder Michael Beenen Hao Lü Lu Sien Tan Ilya Makedon Sean Gottschalk Mathias Hällman Jeff Flatten Eric Butler Jeehyung Lee Ming Yao Alex Chia Chris Carrico Philip Bradley Ian Davis James Thompson David Kim Rhiju Das Yutong Zhao Sayer Herin David Anderson Benjamin Bethurum Supported by: UW Center for Game Science UW Baker Lab HHMI DARPA Microsoft Adobe … and all our players!

Mapping gaming practice to scientific practice

by Mark Chen on May 04, 2011

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