Steffen Becker, born 1977 in Weilburg/Germany, is the chair of the Reliable Software Systems departmentat the University of Stuttgart. Before becoming professor in Stuttgart he had chairs in Chemnitz and Paderborn after doing his PhD in Karlsruhe and Oldenburg. Steffen is a member of various steering comittees of conferences in the areas software architecture and performance in which he also contributed with important books and successful EU projects. He is a member of the German computer science society were he currently heads the SIG on Architectures. He is engaged in active technolgy transfer projects of novel results into industry.
His research interests range from software architecture, over the design and verification of cyber-physical systems to topics of software engineering education. In case of the latter, he works jointly with the PH Ludwdigburg in educating future computer science teachers and does different types of industry trainings in topics of software engineering and programming.
Experiences with Gamified Intelligent Tutor Systems for Programming and Software Engineering Education
Learning the basics of programming or the concepts of software engineering is of outmost importance for an ever increasing number of people. However, teaching resources are very limited, may it be in universities or may it be in industrial training offerings. Intelligent Tutor Systems have emerged to help to cope with that situation. They apply AI techniques to mimic real tutor’s behavior. Furthermore, they can adapt their teaching strategies to the predicted learner’s advancement. We have developed various approaches to leverage ITS systems. To further improve learner’s motivation, we have combined those approaches with elements of gamification.
In this talk I am gone give some insights into the methods we have developed, their limitations, the experiences we have collected in validating them, and an outlook to future ideas.
