TY - GEN
T1 - An innovative proposal for young students to learn computer science and technology through Pokemon go
AU - Huang, Ching Yu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/3/17
Y1 - 2017/3/17
N2 - Pokemon Go is a mobile device based game that is very popular among teenagers. The game is based on the Geographic Information System (GIS) that utilizes the player's location and interacts with many fancy characters stored in local databases, and occasionally some information stored in remote databases. The game requires a lot of computations for distances, rules, and interactions. In this paper, we propose an innovative method for young students to learn about computer science through GIS and Pokemon Go. It is very important for young students to know that computer science is not just only about coding, but also involves many other interesting topics such as security, networking, animation, modeling, graphic and interface design, databases, user experiences (UX), requirement design, technical writing, etc. The purpose of this paper is to document how to encourage young students interested in pursuing careers in computer science and technology fields.
AB - Pokemon Go is a mobile device based game that is very popular among teenagers. The game is based on the Geographic Information System (GIS) that utilizes the player's location and interacts with many fancy characters stored in local databases, and occasionally some information stored in remote databases. The game requires a lot of computations for distances, rules, and interactions. In this paper, we propose an innovative method for young students to learn about computer science through GIS and Pokemon Go. It is very important for young students to know that computer science is not just only about coding, but also involves many other interesting topics such as security, networking, animation, modeling, graphic and interface design, databases, user experiences (UX), requirement design, technical writing, etc. The purpose of this paper is to document how to encourage young students interested in pursuing careers in computer science and technology fields.
KW - Augmented Reality
KW - database
KW - Geographic Information System
KW - mobile device
KW - young students
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017289423&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CSCI.2016.0055
DO - 10.1109/CSCI.2016.0055
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85017289423
T3 - Proceedings - 2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2016
SP - 246
EP - 251
BT - Proceedings - 2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2016
A2 - Yang, Mary
A2 - Arabnia, Hamid R.
A2 - Deligiannidis, Leonidas
A2 - Deligiannidis, Leonidas
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2016
Y2 - 15 December 2016 through 17 December 2016
ER -