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Kurt Luther
Exploring how large-scale collaboration occurs in online animation communities
Betsy DiSalvo
Increasing African American male gamers' interest in CS and the game industry though after school QA tester jobs and training.
Sarita Yardi
Series of design studies in which teens design their online own social networks
PAST PROJECTS
Andrea Forte
Science Online is an online science wiki to explores the power of open content development as a learning activity
Jose Zagal
GameLog is an online blogging environment for supporting reflection
of gameplaying experiences. By writing about the games they play, users can begin to identify gameplay features and
design elements present in multiple games, and how these features interact to provide particular experiences.
Jose Zagal
The Game Ontology Project is framework for describing, analyzing and studying games.
It is a hierarchy of concepts abstracted from an analysis of many specific games
Addy Lee
Studies differences in dating behavior between online social networking sites and online dating specific sites
Susan Gov
Explores how users manage their identities online when using multiple social networking sites
Jason Elliott, Rachel Fithian, Philip Graham, Jared Parsons
AquaMOOSE 3D is a 3D math learning environment designed to build connections between mathematical and artistic thinking.
Amy Bruckman, Jef Holloman
Research of animation in Second Life that is geared towards understanding why character animations are used in social situations.
Jim Hudson
IRC Francais helps students learn French through active conversation with other students using Internet Relay Chat
Amy Bruckman
MOOSE Crossing is a text-based virtual world (or "MUD") designed to help kids to learn reading, writing, and computer programming.
Jose Zagal
Anival is an online community to support the collaborative creation of short animated films using Alice
Jason Ellis
Palaver Tree Online is an online community that supports kids interviewing elders on the Internet to build up a
shared multimedia archive of oral history.