Building Virtual Worlds Carrying on the Legacy of Randy Pausch´s "Head Fake"

Author

Schell, J. ; Klug, C.

Volume

33

Issue

3

fYear

2013

fDate

May-June 2013

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

15

Abstract

The Carnegie Mellon Building Virtual Worlds course fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and invention. It helps provide students with a solid foundation by challenging them to create innovative, future-oriented experiences through a series of critiqued rapid prototypes. This process, combined with carefully designed peer evaluation, has led to a system that hundreds of alumni credit with setting them on the road to inventing the future of entertainment technology.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational courses; virtual reality; Carnegie Mellon Building Virtual Worlds course; Head Fake; Randy Pausch; alumni credit; critiqued rapid prototypes; entertainment technology; future oriented experience; interdisciplinary collaboration; peer evaluation; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Entertainment; Technological innovation; Virtual environments; Virtual reality; Building Virtual Worlds; Entertainment Technology Center; Randy Pausch; VR; computer graphics; computer graphics education; virtual reality; virtual worlds;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2013.42

Filename

6516492