Last Friday, SEER Lab Director Jeremy Bradbury was the keynote speaker at the Foundations of Applied Software Engineering for Games Workshop (FaSE4Games’25) co-located with the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’2025). His talk was titled “Personalizing Software Engineering Serious Games with AI” and covered development challenges including:
Category Archives: CS Education
SEER Lab BSc (Hons.) Students Successfully Present Theses
Congratulations to Ashar Izhar, Daniel Hinbest, Dev Thaker, and Mirisan Ravindran who all successfully presented their Computer Science honours theses last Thursday! 🎓 A further congratulations to Ashar who’s thesis was nominated for the Ontario Tech Computer Science Outstanding Thesis Award.
SEER Lab Presentation at the 2025 Digital Innovation Education Conference
Last Friday, Stacey Koornneef presented at the 2025 Digital Innovation in Education Conference on “Lessons Learned: How to Design & Evaluate Cost-Accessible Coding Games for Children.”
Successful Partnership with Ontario Tech University Summer Camps
A big thank you to the Ontario Tech University Summer Camps for partnering with the Software Engineering & Education Research Lab (SEER Lab) and supporting our research study on the benefits of tangible and hybrid (tangible + digital) educational games in learning computational thinking with K-5 students.
Successful CSER 2024 Spring Meeting
SEER Lab’s Jeremy Bradbury, Stacey Koornneef and Riddhi More were in Kingston, ON at Queen’s University on June 10th & 11th for the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) 2024 Spring Meeting. In total 140 participants attending the CSER 2024 Spring Meeting from universities and industry across Canada. 🇨🇦
Stacey Koornneef Successfully Defends MSc Thesis
Congratulations to SEER Lab’s Stacey Koornneef who successfully defended and submitted her MSc thesis today. Stacey’s thesis is titled “Run, Llama, Run: An Educational Coding Game for Assessing Tangible and Hybrid Interfaces” and was co-supervised by Jeremy Bradbury and Michael Miljanovic.
Japnit Ahuja Wins Ada Lovelace Special Recognition Award for Women in ICT
Congratulations to SEER Lab’s Japnit Ahuja for winning the 2023 Ada Lovelace Special Recognition Award For Women In ICT, a WomenTech Network global award. The award is in recognition of her efforts in founding the Go Girl Organisation which provides free coding workshops to underprivileged girls.
New Book Chapter – Engineering Adaptive Serious Games Using Machine Learning
The “Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts: Theories, Methods, Tools, and Experiences” book is now out! If you have the opportunity to read it there is a chapter co-authored by SEER Lab’s Michael Miljanovic and Jeremy Bradbury on “Engineering Adaptive Serious Games Using Machine Learning.”
Welcome to Mitacs Globalink Research Interns
We’re happy to welcome two new Mitacs Globalink research interns to the lab — Sylvain Rocchia from Grenoble INP and Alex Baxter from the University of Edinburgh. Sylvain and Alex will be spending their internship as members of the SEER Lab working on the development of an educational game for learning software testing.
Inclusive and Experiential Pedagogies for Undergraduate Mathematics and Computer Science
This interactive and multi-modal e-course (https://www.thinkmath.ca/e-courses/experiential/#/) is designed to help instructors of university mathematics and computer science enhance and apply skills for leveraging innovative and inclusive approaches to support experiential learning and student achievement. Specifically, the course examines the connections between engaging in computational modelling and experiential learning practices and lays a foundation for howContinue reading “Inclusive and Experiential Pedagogies for Undergraduate Mathematics and Computer Science”