Picard: a creative and social online flashcard learning game

K. Tuite, Timothy Pavlik, S. Fan, Tyler Robison, Alexander Jaffe, Yun-En Liu, Erik Andersen, S. Tanimoto
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Many subjects such as languages, history, biology, geography, law, and medicine require the memorization of large numbers of unstructured facts and vocabulary. While there are many techniques and tools for memorizing such information, sustaining motivation remains a major barrier towards progress in these subjects. In order to help fill this gap, we brainstormed, experimented, and paper-prototyped to create Picard, a Facebook game that intertwines creative and social elements to turn rote learning into a creative, engaging experience. Picard, inspired by Pictionary, encourages players to come up with creative stories and images to help remember a particular card. Players compete and cooperate with their friends on Facebook to create the most memorable and funny mnemonics, called Picards, gaining points when they help themselves or others remember flashcards. Players use these Picards to learn and prove knowledge of the material at spaced intervals, which research has shown to be maximally effective for learning. Our game is the novel combination of an established learning methodology with player creativity and social support for learning. Picard increases player investment in the process of learning by allowing players to create and share useful visual mnemonics, while at the same time motivating and structuring their study habits through spaced-repetition quizzes.
Picard:一个创造性和社交在线抽认卡学习游戏
许多科目,如语言、历史、生物、地理、法律和医学,都需要记忆大量非结构化的事实和词汇。虽然有许多技术和工具来记忆这些信息,但保持动力仍然是这些学科进步的主要障碍。为了填补这一空白,我们通过头脑风暴、实验和纸上原型创造了《Picard》,这是一款融合了创造性和社交元素的Facebook游戏,将死记硬背的学习变成了一种富有创造性和吸引力的体验。《Picard》受Pictionary的启发,鼓励玩家想出创造性的故事和图像来帮助他们记住一张特定的卡片。玩家们在Facebook上与好友竞争合作,创造出最令人难忘、最有趣的记忆法,即Picards,当他们帮助自己或他人记住抽认卡时,就能获得积分。玩家们用这些皮卡德牌来学习和证明每隔一段时间的知识,研究表明这对学习是最有效的。我们的游戏是将既定的学习方法与玩家创造力和社会支持结合在一起。《Picard》通过让玩家创造和分享有用的视觉记忆法来增加玩家在学习过程中的投入,同时通过间隔重复测验来激励和构建他们的学习习惯。
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