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From: Kathleen Tuite <ktuite@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:06 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Picard: a totally awesome facebook game for studying GRE flashcards
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Hi Undergrads!
Some of you are presumably applying to grad school this fall and need
to take the GRE in the future or near past. I assume your math skills
are probably pretty stellar, but maybe your vocab skills are a little
weak? If so, maybe WE can help YOU by having you help US by playing an
awesome flashcard-quizzing-and-drawing game called Picard!
You can find it here: https://www.
and here: https://www.facebook.com/apps/
Who we are: Some grad students in CSE all mostly associated with the
Center for Game Science who’ve been working on this game for a while.
What this is: We just want people to play! We *need* people to play,
as this is part of our grad student research. Playing consists of
quizzing (good for basic review) AND ALSO DRAWING (optional!!) which
is fun and actually awesome for helping you learn and remember things.
The drawings are called Picards (pic-card). This game is one of the
few IN EXISTENCE where players draw the content themselves AND where
the user-created content actually serves a purpose within and outside
of the game. Pretty neat, if you ask me!
Where’s the Star Trek? In addition to vocab words, we have some other
topics like Star Trek episodes, World Capitals, and Software Design
Patterns, which you’re welcome to try. You’re also more than welcome
to draw star trek themed Picards for any topic.
Thanks for taking a look!! If you have younger siblings prepping for
the SAT, we’ve also got SAT words (although I just pulled the lists
off the internet and they seem kind of similar…) Here’s the link a
couple more times:
https://www.
https://www.
https://www.
Thanks again!
– Kathleen
P.S. If you’re concerned about the hefty FB permissions and the TOS,
here’s the deal: Picard WILL email you sometimes (because facebook
basically did away with notifications and changed them into “requests”
which make sense for farmville but not us) and Picard will only post
on your wall With Your Permission when you draw a Picard. The TOS just
has to do with getting human subject approval from IRB so we can write
a paper about this some day. If you make it past these and actually
play, you are awesome!