Dr. Franziska Spring

Pixxadoo focuses on consulting and development of online/mobile games beyond entertainment and social apps. Our first product 'Playzone' will be released for iOS this spring.

Published 2 flash fiction and 1 short story in national and international magazines

Researching and Developing a game system that supports collaboration in creative environments.

Project lead, idea, concept, and interface design: Playzone – Social platform for the coordination of play dates with children. Hortus – Transformation of existing learning version into entertainment game.

• Project lead, idea, concept, design, and supervision of the implementation of “Hortus 2” ( www.project-hortus.net ). • Organization, execution, and data analysis of user online experiments • Development of algorithm to assess learning progress • One conference paper written

• Supervision of PhD student • Coaching of Master thesis students • Preparing concepts of how to teach games in classroom environments for a teacher-education class

Full responsibility of the PhD project: Design, implementation and supervision of the development for the strategy simulation game “Hortus”. Leading a 3-4 people team (graphic designer, programmers) during the development process. Organization, execution and data analysis of user experiments (lab tests and online experiments). Data mining/evaluation of collected data.

Conceptualization of the game Hortus and user studies (lab tests); Further education in advanced research of game studies and virtual worlds, theories of educational games; User study with World of Warcraft.

game mechanics and learning, research in virtual worlds, learning in commercial games, development of game prototype (simulation strategy online game)

Games for Learning

Multimedia, Human Computer Interaction, and Collaborative Technologies