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Youngmoo E. Kim, Travis M. Doll, Raymond Migneco, "Collaborative Online Activities for Acoustics Education and Psychoacoustic Data Collection," IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 168-173, July-September, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TLT.2009.10,
author = {Youngmoo E. Kim and Travis M. Doll and Raymond Migneco},
title = {Collaborative Online Activities for Acoustics Education and Psychoacoustic Data Collection},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies},
volume = {2},
number = {3},
issn = {1939-1382},
year = {2009},
pages = {168-173},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.10},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
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A1 - Youngmoo E. Kim,
A1 - Travis M. Doll,
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KW - Computers and education
KW - computer-assisted instruction
KW - games
KW - sound and music computing.
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Youngmoo E. Kim, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Travis M. Doll, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Raymond Migneco, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Online collaborative game-based activities may offer a compelling tool for mathematics and science education, particularly for younger students in grades K-12. We have created two prototype activities that allow students to explore aspects of different sound and acoustics concepts: the “cocktail party problem” (sound source identification within mixtures) and the physics of musical instruments. These activities are also inspired by recent work using games to collect labeling data for difficult computational problems from players through a fun and engaging activity. Thus, in addition to their objectives as learning activities, our games facilitate the collection of data on the perception of audio and music, with a range of parameter variation that is difficult to achieve for large subject populations using traditional methods. Our activities have been incorporated into a pilot study with a middle school classroom to demonstrate the potential benefits of this platform.

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Index Terms:
Computers and education, computer-assisted instruction, games, sound and music computing.
Citation:
Youngmoo E. Kim, Travis M. Doll, Raymond Migneco, "Collaborative Online Activities for Acoustics Education and Psychoacoustic Data Collection," IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 168-173, July-Sept. 2009, doi:10.1109/TLT.2009.10
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