This study investigates students’ gaming decisions while playing the robotic game “Callisto Summit” and analyzes their critical thinking performance based on the gaming decisions. “Callisto Summit” is designed for the players to use block codinge to move the robots on a large game map to negotiate and solve inter-group conflicts and issues, such as city development, environmental pollution, and population. Forty-eight American students aged 8-12 participated in the game-based learning activity. In this study, qualitative research methods are used to document and observe how players made gaming decisions, then further analyze their behaviors to understand their critical thinking performance.

Over the past few decades, many countries are doing everything they can to develop the young generation’s critical and systematic thinking, to help them become independent thinkers with the capacity to engage in higher-order thinking or policy promotion. This study aims to examine the way that digital game-based learning (DGBL) exerts an effect on critical thinking and environmental literacy. The fifth-and-sixth graders will participate in the study. Participants will finish the questionnaire survey and interviewed regarding environmental protection and participants’ behavior and attitudes, revealing the effect of digital game-based learning upon their critical thinking skills, and the students’ environmental literacy.

Gamification is the use of game design elements and game mechanisms in non-game context to increase audience’s motivation and engagement. Not only being applied on the commercial market to attract consumers, gamification is also used in educational context by teachers to help keeping students engaged and motivated in the physical classrooms. This paper furthermore upraises the discussion of how the gamification strategies can be implemented online for a website with academic purposes to retain its members, and what of which are the members’ most concerns a designer should adapt to if time and resource are limited. Examples are given and an online survey of 73 subjects with empirical experience was conduct to reveal that among those game mechanisms proposed, the graphical feedbacks are the subjects’ most concerns, followed by the gamified theme activity and discussion board. For websites which are not gameplay purposed this paper could provide useful suggestions for the designers who try to use gamification for enhancing the audience’s participation and enthusiasm, even for educational purposes.

Therapists have search for a better solution to integrate with sensory integrative therapy for the purpose of multisensory stimulation for children with sensory integration dysfunction (SID). This research designs a digital posture game using in treating SID. Challenges in this game mainly designed to stimulate the vestibular and proprioceptive of SID children. Patients have to transform their postures to accomplish the game task, achieving therapeutic purposes. Researchers hope through this game, we can provide the therapist more treatment information of patients to improve the overall effectiveness of the treatment.

This assessment design examines the deficiencies and flaws of existing creativity measures for digital game story design. Instead of using holistic scoring simply overlooking an overall story, a two-dimensional analytic approach to creativity assessment which combines distinct game story constructs with six types of creativity indicators is proposed. Besides, creativity descriptors commonly used by educators in scoring rubrics are also been characterized to correspond to the categories of creativity indicators. This creativity assessment not only helps evaluators like teachers measure digital game story creativity, understands which aspects of the digital game story are short of creativity, but also prompts digital game story designers like students and product developers to tailor creative and entertaining game stories.

This paper proposes an ontology-based intelligent system for malware behavioral analysis. The design background and structure of the Taiwan Malware Analysis Net (TWMAN) are presented to analyze the malware behavior. The TWMAN is composed of the malware behavioral analysis agent and the ontology agent. All of the essential information of the TWMAN, including the malware behavioral ontology, which is store in an ontology repository. The malware behavioral analysis agent collects the malware behavioral information to build malware behavioral ontology and malware behavioral rules. The results from the system logs show that the TWMAN can work effectively based on the malware behavioral analysis to protect the computers from the attack of computer viruses and Trojans.

Today, video game has become an indispensable entertainment to children, and the theory of Multiple Intelligences is popular in Education, too. But so far, there are no researchers focused their studies on relation between video game and Multiple Intelligences in education. In this study, the researcher explored that students’ change after utilizing video game into the curriculum of Multiple Intelligences. According to the theory of authentic assessment, there were four fifth grade students participated in this study, the researcher tried to investigate the effect of Multiple Intelligences when students played video game. The researcher used hand-held device: Nintendo Dual Screen and puzzle game software: Big Brain Academy for this experiment, and adopted observation and interview for data collection to understand students’ change of Multiple Intelligences. The researcher discovered that he could assess students’ spatial intelligence and logical-mathematical intelligence during the game. At the same time, students also enhanced their spatial intelligence, logical mathematical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence and bodily-kinesthetic intelligence.

This study applied the features of social media to implement a picture book in facilitating the students collaborative creative activity. Based on Amabile’s componential theory, this study evaluated the influences of social media in students’ creativity behaviors. The results showed that the students were more active to present multi-thinking, as well as revealed higher significant satisfaction in the perceptions of the ownership of working and peers’ mutual support. Moreover, the collaborative creative environment engaged the students in developing creative works.

Strong diagnosability is a more precise concept for measuring the reliability of multiprocessor systems than the traditional global measurement. In this paper, we study the strong diagnosability of multiprocessor systems under the PMC model. Our main objective is to determinate the strong diagnosability of two wide classes of networks, namely regular networks and product networks, subject to certain conditions. Based on our results, we demonstrate the strong diagnosability of several well-known networks, including variants of hypercubes and many others.