Research Information

Research Info

Typing Game
Lets face it, to be professional in any career today, proficient computer skills are required. Proficient computer skills means being able to use a keyboard proficiently. What this means is that keyboarding is one of the if not most important skill to learn during primary education.

Reasons Why we Need Typing

- Typing is an automotive skill that is reinforced heavily with very little practice per day. (10 minutes)

- Bad typing skills are hard to break

- Eye to hand motor coordination

-More and more curriculums are integrating computers heavily. Teaching kids to type at a young age   ensures they remain efficient operating these devices for the rest of their lives.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech072.shtml

Pattern Recognition 

Pattern Recognition is extremely important for the development of children

http://www.mathrise.com/How-Learning-Patterns-Leads-to-Brighter-Children/

http://emergentbydesign.com/2010/04/05/essential-skills-for-21st-century-survival-part-i-pattern-recognition/

Everyday Users

• Children that need to learn to type
• Adults that cant type, or two finger typists
• Everyone

Typing is required more and more to be able to communicate and participate in a every growing tech heavy world. Therefor the basic mechanics of typing and the improvement of typing skills is beneficial to everyone. 

Problems with Current Typing Games

We played many different typing games in order to see what makes or breaks a good typing game. There are many different approaches to the typing style games, but all of them had a few common problems that plagued every game that we played. Here are the problems that we ran into.

Typing Game Problems

• To slow
• No entertaining feedback
• No purpose
• Bad design
• No breaks

Solutions for Current Typing Game Problems

Though typing games have there problems, there where many mechanics to typing games that made them interesting and fun to play.  These mechanics come from many different typing games, and we hope in incorporate them into our game. 

Typing Game Solutions
• Sounds for every letter/word
• Urgency
• Competition
• Instant effect
• Exciting material/effects
• Feedback
• Reward