reu welcome, rules, and tutorials
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REU Welcome, Rules, and Tutorials. Amanda Chaffin [email protected]. Who we are. Amanda Chaffin Ph. D. student. Evie Powell Ph. D. student CSDTs Game Design and Dev Social and Ubiquitous Computing. Mike Eagle Ph. D. student - Serious Games Game Design and Dev Statistical Analysis. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Dr. Tiffany BarnesAmanda Chaffin
Who we areDr. Tiffany Barnes Assistant ProfessorPh. D. (NC State)
Amanda ChaffinPh. D. student
- Advanced Learning Technologies, EDM, AI, BPC- Game Design and Dev
- Game Design and Dev- Game AI and Physics- Collaborative Visualizations Tools- Educational Games
Evie Powell Ph. D. student- CSDTs- Game Design and Dev- Social and Ubiquitous Computing
Mike EaglePh. D. student
- Serious Games- Game Design and Dev- Statistical Analysis
Drew HicksPh. D. student- Serious Games- Game Design and Dev- Social Networking Games
Behrooz MostafaviPh. D. student
- Game Design and Dev- EDM- Visualization Tools
Acey BoycePh. D. student
- Game Design and Dev- BPC- CSDTs
Matt JohnsonPh. D. student
- Game Design and Dev- Collaborative Visualization Tools- EDM
Dr. Tiffany BarnesAmanda Chaffin
Projects• Grad mentors: Evie Powell
– REU team: Thomas Phifer and Meena Seralathan– Games: Snag'em, a game to promote social networking, and SUPA2 – a pervasive audio
game
• Grad mentors: Drew Hicks and Acey Boyce– REU team: Antoine Campbell, Shaun Pickford, and Dustin Culler– Games: Virtual Bead Loom Game, Community Site for CSDTs, Dance Tool
• Grad mentors: Drew Hicks and Andrea Nickel– REU team: Veronica Catete and Joshua Situka– Game: Bots: a game to teach backtracking and debugging
• Grad mentors: Matt Johnson and Behrooz Mostafavi– REU team: Gloria Szilasi– Tool: EDM Vis tool
• Grad mentors: Amanda Chaffin, Hunter Hale, and Acey Boyce– REU team: Whoever wants to join!– Game: Left4Dead map of UNC Charlotte (tons of alarmed cars and escalation events)
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Rules of the Lab
• Quiet hours are from 9 - 6:30 weekdays• Any working student has veto power over
game playing• Use headphones• Full access internet – don’t abuse it • No meeting in lab, keep sidebar meeting
short and QUIET!• Clean up after yourself…none of us got
this far to be your maid service
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General Rules
• 40 hour work week
• Lab/REU meeting attendance mandatory– If late, extra work hours
• Demos
• Lunch…
• Time off/being late/rearranging schedules
• Professionalism/dress code
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Useful Websites
• http://scholar.google.com
• http://docs.google.com
• http://library.uncc.edu/ - login from home
• http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation
• http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs
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Powerpoint Presentations
• Picture worth 1000 words so max 40 words per slide (that is high!)
• No more than 5 minutes• No more than 5 slides• Each slide must have –
– Game2Learn logo– Name, advisor’s name, Dr. Barnes and emails– (Optional) Page count (not for short)
• Respect Copywrite and Trademarks
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Extra Sessions
• If you need more help with programming, research, writing, reviewing, etc…– Email me ([email protected]) with your
specific need– I will be happy to help solve the issues
• If you have personal issues…
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Questions?
Amanda Chaffin
Now, onto the SVN tutorial!