Karen Doore

Associate Professor of Instruction

Degrees:

• M.S., Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
• B.S., Material Science Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Research Interests:

• Computer Science Education Research
• Modeling and Simulation
• Game Design and Development
• Generative Art and Design

Major Honors and Awards:

• EEF Fellowship – UT Dallas Computer Science Department
• Best Poster Award (Tie) ACM SIGSIM PADS Conference, June 2014
• Metallurgical Engineering Academic Scholarship, University of Illinois

Representative Publications:

• Doore, K 2015. Modeling-First Approach for Computer Science Instruction. In Proceedings of the eleventh annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER ’15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 255-256.
• Doore, K., Vega D. and Fishwick P. 2015. A Media-Rich Curriculum for Modeling and Simulation. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on SIGSIM-Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS ’15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 23-34.
• Doore, K. and Fishwick, P. 2014. Prototyping an Analog Computing Representation of Predator Prey Dynamics. Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference (Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2014), 3561–3571a.
• Howell, M., Vega, D., Doore, K. and Fishwick, P. 2014. Enhancing Model Interaction with Immersive and Tangible Representations: A Case Study Using the Lotka-volterra Model. Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference (Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2014), 3572–3583.

Notable Service:

• GSNTX Computer Science Girls Summer Camps, June 2014, 2015