Agent monitoring and mouse interactivity in StarLogo Nova
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1102055909-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Choe, Abigail(Abigail D.)
Advisor(s)
Eric Klopfer.
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
StarLogo Nova is a powerful programming environment that allows anyone to easily create a 3D simulation and 3D game using block-based programming language. Due to its intuitive interface and ability to model complex systems, StarLogo is mainly used in primary and secondary school class settings. While StarLogo Nova effectively visualizes a wide range of simulations from biology to economy, the current implementation has two areas for improvement that will help cover more use cases. First, StarLogo Nova currently offers statistics only at the level of agent types. Users can track, for example, changes in population of a given agent type, but cannot track property changes of an individual agent. Second, users cannot interact with individual agents using the mouse. Mouse click enables user to perform targeted interaction with the simulation by triggering an event at the time and location of his or her choice. This thesis outlines agent monitoring feature and design of mouse interactivity that enable users to inspect fine details of a simulation and provide students with higher educational values.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-53).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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