Developing the Good Behaviour Game App

What is the Good Behaviour Game?

• The Game and the App
  • Group activity, group reward
  • Bring in the outliers
  • Recording manually
  • Recording with an app (+ sound, images, ...)

• The GBG Team
  • Hendricks Brown
  • Chris Jacobs
  • John Lake
  • Juan Villamar
  • Geoff Sutcliffe

• App Demonstration
• Data Presentation
  • All game data is uploaded to a server database
  • Game Summary
  • Data Summary

The Development Process

• Dream Big, Dream Small
  • Big - Computer programs (apps) can do almost anything
  • Small - There's only so much time in a day

• Building a Development Team
  • Developers like sweet technical challenges
  • Students like application projects
  • We all like money

• Guiding Development
  • Give precise specifications
  • Give precise feedback as often as possible
  • Trust the technicians
  • Provide testing support

• Layering on Features and Support
  • Plan each layer of functionality
  • Avoid feature creep
  • Modularity - one module, one developer
  • Use standard data transfer technologies

Quo Vadis

• Intelligent Data Analysis
  • Data aggregation
  • Human analysis
  • Expert system analysis
  • Data mining

• Incremental Deployment
  • Developers
  • Team
  • Coach
  • Teachers

• Scaling Up
  • Toy usage
  • Single teachers/classes
  • Schools
  • Districts, States, USA
  • Beyond??
  • A mobile app + internet makes it possible