Ruth Castillo
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Educational Games
Ruth is an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. student with a concentration in Computer Science and Curriculum & Instruction at New Mexico State University (NMSU), USA under the supervision of Dr. Zachary O. Toups and Dr. Karin Wiburg, and a visiting researcher at the HCI Games Group. She holds a Master in Management of Information Technologies from Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico and she is a Computer Engineer from the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez (UACJ), Mexico. Her main research interests are game design theories and game development of serious, educational and learning games that enhance critical thinking and problem solving skills. She worked for several years as a software developer and as part time faculty of UACJ. She visited Universidad de Quilmes, Argentina as part of an administrative staff exchange when working in the International Office of exchange affairs at UACJ.
Projects
Publications
Year 2018
Computer Games As Learning Tools: Teachers Attitudes & Behaviors
Ruth Castillo. 2018. Computer Games As Learning Tools: Teachers Attitudes & Behaviors. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts. Melbourne, Australia. ACM. doi:10.1145/3270316.3270611
Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games
Sultan Alharthi, Ruth Castillo, Ahmed Khalaf, Phoebe Toups, Igor Dolgov, and Lennart Nacke. 2018. Investigating the Impact of Annotation Interfaces on Player Performance in Distributed Multiplayer Games. In Proceeding of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2018. Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, 314. doi:10.1145/3173574.3173888
Practical Insights into the Design of Future Disaster Response Training Simulations
Sultan Alharthi, Nicolas LaLone, Ahmed Khalaf, Ruth Castillo, Lennart Nacke, Igor Dolgov, and Phoebe Toups. 2018. Practical Insights into the Design of Future Disaster Response Training Simulations. In 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018). Rochester, NY, USA.