{"619166":{"#nid":"619166","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2019 InVenture Finalist: Unfoldit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe idea for a gaming app came from an unlikely place.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We got our idea from the American Dental Association\u0026rsquo;s national admissions test,\u0026rdquo; explains Unfolidt co-creator and computer science student Jacqueline Elliot.\u0026nbsp;Imagine folding a piece of paper in half. You then punch a hole in the corner of the folded piece of paper. When you unfold the paper there would be two holes \u0026ndash; one in each corner. The game reenacts this folding and hole-punching and quizzes respondents on the positioning of resulting holes. The team developed an interactive version of this question and turned it into a 250-level game.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Some people pick up the game and know exactly what to do without a tutorial,\u0026rdquo; explains Unfoldit developer Cliff Panos.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe brain-training game also has some slick design.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We use a lot of fun colors and there are a lot of interactive features. It will vibrate when you get an answer correct,\u0026rdquo; says Michael Xu, a computer science major.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, everyone on the team is a computer science major. They built the game from scratch and spent a lot of time on user experience \u0026mdash; \u0026ldquo;Even to the small details of how big the arrow was between stages,\u0026rdquo; says team member Max Brauer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe programming minds behind Unfoldit are working on a way to automate the design of levels, in hopes of adding even more gameplay.\u0026nbsp;You can currently find Unfoldit in the Android and iTunes app stores.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe idea for a gaming app came from an unlikely place \u0026ndash; the American Dental Association\u0026rsquo;s national admissions test.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The idea for a gaming app came from an unlikely place \u2013 the American Dental Association\u2019s national admissions test."}],"uid":"28058","created_gmt":"2019-03-12 23:04:37","changed_gmt":"2019-03-13 13:30:54","author":"Steven Norris","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"619141":{"id":"619141","type":"image","title":"Unfoldit Team Photo InVenture Backdrop 2019","body":null,"created":"1552404766","gmt_created":"2019-03-12 15:32:46","changed":"1552404766","gmt_changed":"2019-03-12 15:32:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235693","name":"Unfoldit_screenshot_team pose_inventure back_12mar19.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Unfoldit_screenshot_team%20pose_inventure%20back_12mar19.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Unfoldit_screenshot_team%20pose_inventure%20back_12mar19.png","mime":"image\/png","size":332811,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Unfoldit_screenshot_team%20pose_inventure%20back_12mar19.png?itok=pA1PZ0SG"}}},"media_ids":["619141"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:snorris@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESteven Norris\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["snorris@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}