Mr Koos de Beer

Modules Offered:

IMY 300 - Multimedia year project: Game Design Theory

IMY 761 - Applied Multimedia

IMY 771 - Multimedia Trends

IMY 773 - Multimedia Technologies: Alternate Reality Game project

IMY 774 - Virtual Environments

Research Interest:

I am currently focusing on projects related to gamification. game studies and interaction design in virtual reality. I also teach Game Design Theory to final year undergraduate students. Topics like gamification, games in education and serious games also interest met.

Specialties: Research in game design theory, creative use of game design theory (entertainment), Alternate Reality Games, Games and Education, Serious Games, Gamification.

Recent Publications:

Conference papers

De Beer, K. & Holmner, M., 2013. THE DESIGN OF AN ALTERNATE REALITY GAME AS CAPSTONE COURSE IN A MULTIMEDIA POST-GRADUATE DEGREE. Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences. Available at: /docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/2013/papers/30

Presentations

17 September 2013
UNISA Library Technology Showcase 2013
Presentation: Games: More than just fun

Gamification and Education. Presented at UP SCITAL Forum for the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (2014)

Gamification and education. Presented at CSIR Hybrid teaching and learning conference (2015)

Responsibilities:

Junior Lecturer at Department of Information Science

Package coordinator for B.IS Multimedia and BIS Multimedia (Hons)

Achievements:

Mentor to 3 groups of student who were finalists at Imagine Cup SA 2011

Mentor to the group who won 1st prize at Imagine Cup SA 2011

Mentor to 3 groups of students who were finalists at Imagine Cup SA 2012

Mentor to 2 groups of students who were finalists at Imagine Cup SA 2014