Message from Centre for Information Technology in Education within the Faculty of Education
CITE Seminar Series 2014/2015
CITE Seminar – Designing and Evaluating an Affective Information Literacy Game
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Miss Yanru Guo, PhD candidate, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chair: Dr. Xiao Hu, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, HKU
About the Seminar
Students today, having been used to Google and YouTube since birth, demand more interactive and innovative teaching methods, such as digital game-based learning. The ability to respond to a user’s affective states also improves the effectiveness of an online learning environment. My PhD research delves into the possible synergy when both concepts are combined in the form of digital game-based learning involving affective embodied agents.
This seminar discusses the research methods and findings of the three studies conducted in my doctoral work, which aims to examine the influence of affective embodied agents on students’ learning motivation, enjoyment and learning efficacy in a digital information literacy (IL) game. In Study I, 285 tertiary students participated in a between-subjects experiment and found the use of affective embodied agent could provide better motivation and enjoyment for students. Participatory design approach was used in Study II to design an IL game prototype. Study III continues to refine the game design iteratively, where input from professional designers and programmers were gathered.
About the Speaker
Miss Yanru Guo is currently a PhD candidate in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interest focuses broadly on information literacy education, digital game-based learning, and affective embodied agents. Her PhD research topic is on designing and evaluating the effectiveness of affective embodied agents in a digital information literacy game. She has published papers in international journals (Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Educational Computing Research) and conferences on Digital Libraries and Information Technologies. She is also a peer reviewer for International Communication Association.
Please register at
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=541&category=seminar
