Tiffany Barnes

Tiffany Barnes

Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Curriculum Vitae
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Teaching

  • ITCS 2050: Beauty and Joy of Computing, Spr11, F11
  • ITCS 4238/5238: Serious Games Prototyping and Evaluation, Fall 2009, Fall 2011
  • ITCS 4231/5231: Advanced Game Design and Development, Spr09, Spr11
  • ITCS 2175: Logic and Algorithms, F11, F10, F09, S09, S08
  • ITCS 4230/5230: Intro. to Game Design and Development, taught in F08, F06, F05, S05
  • ITCS 6159/8159: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, next offered Fall09, taught in F07, S06, F04
  • CICS1214: Introduction to Computer Science, taught in S07
  • Video Game Design Workshop, Summers 2005, 2006, 2008

Research

  • Game2Learn: Building games to learn and teach computer science (NSF-Creative IT)
  • C-STARS: A collaboration with Ron Eglash to integrate Culturally Situated Design Tools with the STARS Alliance (NSF-BPC)
  • STARS Alliance: Broadening Participation in Computing (NSF-BPC)
  • Educational Data Mining for Student Modeling
  • Senior Projects are available for each of these projects

CSDT Workshop, August 9, 2009

Thanks for attending our Culturally Situated Design Tools Workshop. Here are downloads for the day.
  • Bead Loom Application: Eclipse must be installed on your machine to run this application. How to run:
    1. Unzip BeadLoom1.zip onto your Desktop
    2. Start Eclipse
    3. Select File -> Import -> General -> Existing Project Into Workspace
    4. Hit Next, then Browse for the folder BeadLoom1 on your desktop, then hit Finish
    5. Once installed, then in the left pane (the Package Explorer), choose default, then BeadLoom.java, then press the green Play button on the button bar at the top of the screen.
    6. Run the code as an applet.
  • Dance Tool Application

Global Game Jam!

At UNC Charlotte we have hosted Global Game Jam sites each year. Go see the games created at The Global Game Jam site and search the game browser for Charlotte. The games in 2009: Offspring, Willi Nilli, Chubz, Bunny Adventure?, Zimbie, and Hunter Horde.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Information

Two of my students are NSF Graduate Research Fellows, two are NSF GRF Honorable Mentions, and one is a NASA Graduate Student Research Project Recipient. For info on applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, check out Unofficial NSF GRF advice site and NSF's program page.