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Network Investigator: Bruce Gooch
Contact Information
- Associate Professor, University of Victoria, UVic
- 1.250 472 5758 phone
- 1.250 472 5708 fax
- mailto:[email protected]
- http://www.TheGooch.org
GRAND Projects
Biography
Bruce Gooch is an associate professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Bruce earned both MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. Dr. Gooch is the author of two books on NPR: Non-Photorealistic Rendering, published by A.K. Peters 2001; and Illustrative Visualization, to be published by A.K. Peters. The goal of Professor Gooch's research is to develop new algorithms and user interfaces that enhance learning.
Dr. Gooch's current research address the divide between entertaining games} and educational games. Here, the term game to is used refer to video games, such as those played on a computer or video console, as well as online-multiplayer games and mobile device games. Modern games are sometimes characterized by their capacity to capture a player's attention for hours on end; such games are generally considered to be {em entertaining In contrast, educational games are often described as boring. The long term goals of Dr. Gooch's game related research are identifying the capacity to learn via game-play, and understanding how to teach a given set of material using games.
Research Areas: real-time computer graphics, image processing, games and learning, human perception, non-photorealistic rendering, computational aesthetics,
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