In the world of ever-growing technology and multimedia devices, educators around the globe are innovating newer ways to engage students in a more immersive and enjoyable way. Games have had a proven effect on marketing, sales, healthcare, behavioral changes, K12 education, and have now increasingly gained momentum in higher education, especially engineering education, primarily to enhance learner engagement and motivation. This paper presents a work-in-progress towards developing serious games as supplemental material in teaching the course on Basic Electronics. Two story boards of game-based learning are presented in this paper along with the design strategy and target core motivational drives. The game development is under progress and student reception and feedback is yet to be incorporated.

World University root node

Department of Electrical Engineering

IIT Jodhpur

Game-based Learning for Engineering Education: Supplementing Basic Electronics Instruction with Educational Games

The use of smartphone cameras for capturing photographs has seen an exponential growth in the last decade. The noise present in these photographs significantly deviates from the popular Independently Identically Distributed (i.i.d.) Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) noise, and thus the conclusions drawn from simulated-AWGN cannot be directly applied to the smartphone’s true noise. This paper is the first reporting of the exhibition of Stochastic Resonance (SR) or noise-induced threshold-crossing in three genres of discontinuity detectors used in image processing — corner detector, line detector, and edge detector for real-world smartphone images. For the images under investigation, the performance of these detectors is quantified w.r.t. parameters representing intrinsic noise. Observations suggest that all these detectors inherently exhibit the phenomenon of SR due to the fundamental assistance offered by controlled amount of noise in crossing detector thresholds. The manifestations of SR — constant parameter value with varying noise and varying parameter value with constant noise — are demonstrated to exhibit SR in each of the three detectors.

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Exhibition of Noise-aided Stochastic Resonance by Discontinuity Detectors in Smartphone Images

Department of Mechanical Engineering

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Static and dynamic instability modeling of electro-magneto-active polymers with various entanglements and crosslinks

Department of Chemistry

School of Management & Entrepreneurship

Department of Bioscience & Bioengineering

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

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