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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 50 , Issue 7 (July 2007) table of contents
Creating a science of games

SPECIAL ISSUE: Creating a science of games table of contents

Pages: 44 - 49

Year of Publication: 2007

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

Henry Kelly	Federation of American Scientists, Washington D.C.
Kay Howell	Federation of American Scientists, Washington D.C.
Eitan Glinert	Federation of American Scientists, Washington D.C.
Loring Holding	Brown University, Providence, RI
Chris Swain	University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Adam Burrowbridge	Federation of American Scientists, Washington D.C.
Michelle Roper	Federation of American Scientists, Washington D.C.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Like a discovery game that requires players to earn the right to take on new challenges, Immune Attack compels its players to learn the rules of the immune system before it reveals deeper biological insight.

REFERENCES

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Federation of American Scientists. Learning Science and Technology R&D Roadmap. Tech. Rep., Washington D.C., Oct. 2003; www.fas.org/learningfederation.

CITED BY 4

	Eitan Glinert , Lonce Wyse, AudiOdyssey: an accessible video game for both sighted and non-sighted gamers, Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Future Play, November 14-17, 2007, Toronto, Canada
	Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra , Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra , Tyler Harder, Realism and cultural layout in tourism and video games multimedia systems, Proceeding of the 1st ACM international workshop on Communicability design and evaluation in cultural and ecological multimedia system, October 31-31, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
	Yolanda A. Rankin , McKenzie McNeal , Marcus W. Shute , Bruce Gooch, User centered game design: evaluating massive multiplayer online role playing games for second language acquisition, Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Video games, August 09-10, 2008, Los Angeles, California
	Chris Swain, Improving academic-industry collaboration for game research and education, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games, April 26-30, 2009, Orlando, Florida

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.3.1 Computer Uses in Education

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.0 General

I. Computing Methodologies
I.6 SIMULATION AND MODELING
I.6.8 Types of Simulation
Subjects: Gaming

J. Computer Applications
J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

K. Computing Milieux
K.1 THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.3.0 General
K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors

REVIEW

"Jennifer M. Nolan : Reviewer"

Computer-aided education (CAE) has taken many forms at many different educational levels. This paper discusses the development of a video game created to teach immunology to high school and college students. The project was begun in 2004, and spon more...

Collaborative Colleagues:

Henry Kelly: colleagues

Kay Howell: colleagues

Eitan Glinert: colleagues

Loring Holding: colleagues

Chris Swain: colleagues

Adam Burrowbridge: colleagues

Michelle Roper: colleagues