Mirela Gutica Email & Phone Number

Burnaby, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I teach, conduct research and provide curriculum leadership in the Computing Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. My teaching included Programming Methodologies, Computer Archnitecture and Organization, Programming Languages, Operating Systems and Discrete Mathematics.I developed courses in the above areas.I supervised student projects.I was awarded by the Institute Research Fund the VP Research Seed Fund for my research proposal "Building Advanced Learning… Show more I teach, conduct research and provide curriculum leadership in the Computing Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. My teaching included Programming Methodologies, Computer Archnitecture and Organization, Programming Languages, Operating Systems and Discrete Mathematics.I developed courses in the above areas.I supervised student projects.I was awarded by the Institute Research Fund the VP Research Seed Fund for my research proposal "Building Advanced Learning Technologies for Improving Girls' and Women's Participation in STEM" (2016 -2019).I was the principal investigator for the BCIT VP Research Seed funded project "Research Platform for Adaptation to Affect in the Context of Intelligent Tutoring Systems" (2012 - 2013).I served in Curriculum Committees and in the School Quality Committee. Show less

Canada

2014, May: I received my PhD from the University of British Columbia2014, April 14: I submitted the thesis2014 April 5: I presented at American Educational Research Association Conference (http://www.aera.net) the paper: "Designing an Educational Game (Heroes of Math Island): An Exploratory Study of Emotion and Learning" part of the symposium: "Design-Based in Gaming and Virtual Environments" conducted by Dr. Petrina2014, March 17: I completed the dissertation defense2014… Show more 2014, May: I received my PhD from the University of British Columbia2014, April 14: I submitted the thesis2014 April 5: I presented at American Educational Research Association Conference (http://www.aera.net) the paper: "Designing an Educational Game (Heroes of Math Island): An Exploratory Study of Emotion and Learning" part of the symposium: "Design-Based in Gaming and Virtual Environments" conducted by Dr. Petrina2014, March 17: I completed the dissertation defense2014, January 24: The thesis was sent to the external examiner.2013, December: I finish my thesis, was approved by my supervisor Dr. Stephen Petrina and sent to the committee (Dr. Cristina Conati and Dr. Don Krug).2013, September:I presented to the ACII conference (http://www.acii2013.org/) the following paper:Mirela Gutica and Cristina Conati. Student Emotions with an Edu-Game: A Detailed Analysis2013, July: I finalized qualitative data analysis.2013, April: I finalized the quantitative data analysis.2012, December: I finalized data collection.2012, March: I completed the Comprehensive Exams and my Proposal was approved.2010: I am in the process of proposing a thesis. The title of my disertation is: Designing Engaging Educational Games: An Identification of Emotions for Modeling Pedagogical and Adaptive Emotional Agents2008 - 2009: I completed the course work Show less

Taught programming languages, and computer architecture and organization

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Curriculum Studies And Technology Education

Areas of interest: • Emotion, Cognition, Learning and Computing • Affective Computing • New Media • Human-Computer Interaction; Adaptive.

Ma, Technology Education

Thesis: EMOTIONAL DESIGN: AN INVESTIGATION INTO DESIGNERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF INCORPORATING EMOTIONS IN SOFTWARE

Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering With A Major In Automation And Computer Science

Electrical Engineering is a Master of Science/Engineering Program in Romania