Joshua Salyers
Joshua Salyers is an Instructor of Game Development and Immersive Design in the Department of Art, 媒体, 表演, 和设计. He earned his M.A. from East Tennessee State University and his Ph.D. in Latin American 历史 from the University of Arizona.
He came to Pacific as part of an interdisciplinary project, The Digital Deltas Project, begun by the Department of 历史 in collaboration with the School of Engineering and Computer Science. This interdisciplinary student-driven initiative to create public humanities projects using game and immersive technologies has resulted in students creating games, pedagogical programs, and museum exhibits that explore the history of the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta area.
BA – East Tennessee State University
MA – East Tennessee State University
PhD – University of Arizona
Teaching Philosophy:
My teaching philosophy revolves around the principle that engaged learning occurs when students take ownership of their own work. I encourage my students explore the intersection of digital and interactive storytelling technologies and the humanities through project-based learning, which forces them to think critically about subject matter and make decisions about how to best tell the “story” of that subject. My digital humanities focus offers students an opportunity to learn new technical skills, engage with interesting humanities topics, and make meaningful decisions about how to present the histories of real people to public audiences. My courses focus on exploring games (both digital and analog) and immersive technologies (virtual and augmented reality) as storytelling and educational tools.
课程:
Virtual Reality and Immersive Design
Introduction to Game Design
Indie Game Development with Unreal Engine
关卡设计
Historical Reconstruction
历史 of Interactive and Immersive 媒体
项目X
Think Tank: Stories of 斯托克顿
Previsualization
Critical 媒体 Making
研究 Interests:
Digital Humanities
Serious Game Design
Video Game Design
Virtual Reality
Immersive Design
Historical Reconstruction
Cultural 历史
Public 历史
Mexican 历史
Digital Pedagogy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
C. 亚当斯* D. 克莱本J. Salyers R. Shiraz*, A Qualitative Evaluation of Student Experience with a Virtual Heritage Application. Proceedings of the IEEE VR 5th Workshop on K-12+ Embodied Learning through Virtual and Augmented Reality, 3月22日, 2020, 亚特兰大, 乔治亚州,
J. Salyers D. 克莱本K. Canniff *,年代. Barajas*, Evaluation of Information Widgets for a Virtual Reality Serious Game. Proceedings of the IEEE VR 4th Workshop on K-12+ Embodied Learning through Virtual and Augmented Reality, 3月23日, 2019, 大阪, 日本.
S. Vu D. 克莱本J. Helgren J. Salyers K. Canniff *,. 约翰逊*,米. Milliken*, T. 里尔登,K. Sabbatino, A. Stephan*, Recreating Little Manila through a Virtual
Reality Serious Game. Proceedings of the 3rd Digital Heritage International Congress & Expo, 短论文, October 26-30, 2018, San Francisco, California.
Salyers J., Cliburn, D.火花，E., Culilap, J.*，郭，S., Sabbatino, K.*, Sanchez, R.*, Thomasson, D.*, Tvergyak, H.*, Little Manila: A Digital Recreation. Proceedings of the 15th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, 短论文, September 27-29, 2017, 格拉茨, 奥地利.
Salyers Joshua. "Oscar Lewis, Urban Poverty, and The Children of Sánchez." In Oxford 研究 Encyclopedia of Latin American 历史, 2017.
Salyers Joshua. “Inequality: Mexico” In Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd Edition, Cengage Gale, 2013.
*Denotes University of the Pacific student coauthor
