Yue-Ling Wong, Ph.D
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Professional Activities, Books, and Publications

NEW Book in Digital Media

  1. Yue-Ling Wong, Digital Media Primer: Digital Audio, Video, Imaging and Multimedia Programming, 2nd ed., Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2013. (ISBN-10: 0132923874) Book site

Selected Professional Activities

  1. 2010 - Current: Collaborating with an economic professor on a research project, using the form of an online multiplayer game, to investigate the effects of different economic aspects on people's decisions in epidemic scenarios
  2. 2004 - 2031: Review panel, National Science Foundation (NSF)
  3. 2007: Chaired a special session on entertainment computing in ACM Southeastern Conference 2007
  4. 2007: Chaired the Third Annual Digital Animation Festival in ACM Southeastern Conference 2007
  5. 2006: Reviewed an article on digital video in The Handbook of Computer Networks, Hossein Bidgoli (Editor), John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  6. 2006: Worked with 8th grade science and art teachers at a local school in creating class activities for learning the science of photography
  7. 2003 - 2004: Produced multimedia and 3D stereoscopic animation for two dance productions collaborated with Alban Elved Dance Company
  8. 2003 - 2004: Invited speaker on science of photography for a summer workshop, "The Science of Art," for middle-school teachers
  9. 1999 - 2005: Creative Director for Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal (IMEJ), an electronic online journal

Categories of Undergraduate Courses Taught

Lower-level computer science courses for non-science majors:

  1. Introduction to computer programming (a new course I initiated and developed in my department) Introductory computer programming course through programming games
  2. Introduction to 3D modeling and animation: Concepts and techniques in 3D modeling and animation
  3. Overview of computer science lab: Practicum in digital image manipulation, digital audio, digital video editing, databases, and Web page creation

First Year Seminars:

Entitled "Games and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture": The subject of interest of this seminar surrounded computer games, specifically, the formal aspects of the computer game, the computer game in society and culture, history of computer games, and the economic impact of the computer game.

Upper-level course for computer science majors:

digital media, covering the science and algorithms behind digital media

Digital art classes in the art department

 

Funded Projects

  1. 01/01/2004-12/31/2007
    Funding Agent and Funded Period: National Science Foundation
    Project Title: Integrated Digital Media Curriculum. Full development project of digital media curriculum development for multiple disciplinary interests, from art to computer science, to learn science of digital media.
    Role: Principal Investigator
  2. 01/01/2002-12/31/2003
    Funding Agent and Funded Period: National Science Foundation
    Project Title: Digital Media Curriculum Development Project. A proof-of-concept project integrating science in digital media curriculum for multiple disciplinary interests, from art to computer science.
    Role: Principal Investigator
  3. 05/01/2006-12/31/2006
    Funding Agent and Funded Period: Wake Forest University, Cross-campus Research Grant. Cross-campus collaboration with Dr. Eddie Ip (Wake Forest University School of Medicine) and Dr. Jack Rejeski (Wake Forest University Department of Health and Exercise Science). Incorporate 3D character animation in assessment of physical functioning in older adults.
    Role: Co-Investigator
  4. 01/01/2004-12/31/2004
    Funding Agent and Funded Period: Wake Forest University, Archie Grant for the Arts and Humanities
    Project Title: Digital Media Creation for a Dance Production. For electronic equipment, optics, 3D glasses, and construction of a silver screen for an interactive and 3D stereoscopic digital animation presentation in a dance production.
    Role: Principal Investigator

Publications and Presentations

Textbooks

  1. Yue-Ling Wong, Digital Media Primer: Digital Audio, Video, Imaging and Multimedia Programming, 2nd Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2013. (ISBN-10: 0132923874)
  2. Yue-Ling Wong, Digital Art: Its Arts and Science, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009. (ISBN-10:0131757032)
  3. Yue-Ling Wong, Digital Media Primer: Digital Audio, Video, Imaging and Multimedia Programming, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2009. (ISBN-10:0132239442)

Educational Software and Games

  1. Minions (a 3D first-person shooting iPhone game), from Villain LLC, 2011. App Apple ID: 444404817.
    URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id444404817?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo=4
  2. Yue-Ling Wong, Periodic Table Tiles (a chemistry iPhone game), 2011. App Apple ID: 417595018.
    URL: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=417595018
  3. Yue-Ling Wong, Mathematris (a math addition iPhone game), 2010. App Apple ID:364156358.
    URL:http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=364156358
  4. Yue-Ling Wong, Periodic Tabletris (a chemistry game) for Win and Mac, 1998.
  5. Yue-Ling Wong, Atomic Orbitals CD-ROM and Workbook, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 1997.

Book Chapters in Chemical Education

  1. Angela King and Yue-Ling Wong, "The Use of Preclass Quizzes." Teaching with Technology, edited by David G. Brown, Anker Publishing, 2000.
  2. Angela King and Yue-Ling Wong, "Utilizing Technological Tools in General Chemistry." Interactive Learning: Vignettes from America's Most Wired Campuses, edited by David G. Brown, Anker Publishing, 2000.

Presentations and Papers in Education (Computer Science and Chemistry)

  1. Yue-Ling Wong, Jennifer Burg, "Digital Media Curriculum Development Project," NSF CCLI 2008 PI Conference, August 14, 2008, Washington, DC. (poster pdf)
  2. Yue-Ling Wong, "Teaching Non-majors Computer Programming Using Games as Context and Flash ActionScript 3.0 as the Development Tools," Technical Report, 2008-1, Department of Computer Science, Wake Forest University. (pdf)
  3. Yue-Ling Wong, "Designing Digital Media Curriculum -- Challenges and Learning Principles," Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) International Conference 2006, AACE, March 2006, Orlando, FL.
  4. Yue-Ling Wong, Jennifer Burg, and Victoria Strokanova, "Digital Media in Computer Science Curricula," ACM SIGCSE Conference, March 3-7, 2004, Norfolk, VA. (A conference of Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group Computer Science Education)
  5. Yue-Ling Wong and Jennifer Burg, "Digital Media Curriculum Development Project," Presentation and Proceeding, EdMedia 2003, AACE, June 27, 2003.
  6. Yue-Ling Wong and Jennifer Burg, "Digital Media Curriculum Development Project," NSF Project Showcase, ACM SIGCSE Conference, March 1, 2002.
  7. Angela Glisan King and Yue-ling Wong. "Increasing Active Learning with an On-line Dimensional Analysis Tutorial." 53rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Region of the American Chemical Society, September 24th, 2001.
  8. A.G. King, Y.L. Wong, "Use of Electronic Pre-class Quizzes to Increase Student Preparation in General and Organic Chemistry," American Chemical Society Biennial Chemical Education Conference, August 20, 2000.
  9. Jennifer Burg, Yue-Ling Wong, Ching-Wan Yip, and Anne Boyle, "The State of the Art in Interactive Multimedia Journals for Academia," EdMedia 2000, AACE, June 2000, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  10. Jennifer Burg, Yue-Ling Wong, Dan Pfeifer, Anne Boyle, and Ching-Wan Yip, "The IMEJ of Future Scholarship: A Prototype for an Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal," EdMedia 99, AACE, June 1999, Seattle, WA.
  11. Yue-Ling Wong and Angela King, "Application of Interactive Web Tools in Teaching Redox Chemistry," IMEJ, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wake Forest University, 1999.
  12. J. Burg, Y.-L. Wong, and A. Boyle, "The IMEJ of Future Scholarship: A Prototype for an Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal," EDMEDIA & EDTELECOM '98, AACE, June 1998, Freiburg, Germany.
  13. Angela King and Yue-Ling Wong, "Development and Evaluation of an On-line Redox Tutorial," Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, 1998, Waterloo, Canada.
  14. Y. L. Wong, "Choosing Web application tools for the on-line instructional materials," Chemical Education Symposium, 213th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 1997, San Francisco, CA.
  15. Y.L. Wong and S.B. King, "Teaching NMR Spectral Interpretation on the WWW," American Chemical Society Chemical Education Conference, April 13, 1997.
  16. Y. L. Wong, "Understanding atomic orbitals in 3-D," Chemical Education Symposium, 212th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 1996, Orlando, FL.
  17. Y. L. Wong and C. W. Yip, "Converting the static textbook presentation of atomic theory into a dynamic interactive multimedia module on CD-ROM," Chemical Education Symposium, 211th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 1996, New Orleans, LA.
  18. Y. L. Wong and C. W. Yip, "Visualization: Taking it from workstations to personal desktop computers via CD-ROM," Chemical Education Symposium, 211th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 1996, New Orleans, LA.
  19. C. W. Yip and Y. L. Wong, "CGI programming: Making the Web chemical resources more interactive," Chemical Education Symposium, 211th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 1996, New Orleans, LA.
  20. Yue Ling Wong and Ching Wan Yip, "Low cost 3-D viewing of chemical structures," J. Chem. Educ., 72, no. 12 (1995) A237-8.
  21. Brian M. Tissue, Ching-Wan Yip, and Yue-Ling Wong, "NCSA Mosaic: an internet and hypermedia browser," J. Chem. Educ., 72, no.6 (1995) A116-7.

Presentations and Papers in Chemical Research

  1. Y.L.Wong, M.P. Hubieki, C.L. Curfman, G.F. Doncel, T.C. Dudding, P.S. Savle, R.D. Gandour, "A Structure-Activity Study Of Spermicidal and Anti-HIV Properties Of Hydroxylated Cationic Surfactants," Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 10, 2002, 3599-3608.
  2. J.M. Humphrey, Y.S. Liao, A. Ali, T. Rein, Y.L. Wong, H.J. Chen, A.K. Courtney, S.F. Martin, "Enantioselective Total Syntheses Of Manzamine A And Related Alkaloids," Journal of American Chemical Society, 124, 2002, 8584-8592.
  3. Yue-Ling Wong, Christopher L. Curfman, Gustavo F. Doncel, M. Patricia Hubieki, Travis C. Dudding, Prashant S. Savle, and Richard D. Gandour. "Spermicidal, anti-HIV, and micellar properties of di and trihydroxylated cationic surfactants," Tetrahedron, 58, no. 1 (2002) 45-54.
  4. F.M. Menger, Y.L. Wong, "Synthesis of Defective Phospholipids," Journal of Organic Chemistry, 61, 1996, 7382-7390.
  5. S.F. Martin, J.A. Josey, Y.L. Wong, D.W. Dean, "General Method for the Synthesis of Phospholipid Derivatives of 1,2-o-diacyl-sn-glycerols," Journal of Organic Chemistry, 59, 1994, 4805-4820.
  6. S.F. Martin, Y.L. Wong, A.S. Wagman, "Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Phospholipid Analogs as Inhibitors of the Bacterial Phospholipase C from Bacillus Cereus," Journal of Organic Chemistry, 59, 1994, 4821-4831.
  7. A.S. Wagman, D.W. Dean, M.K. Gratchev, J.A. Josey, Y.L. Wong, S.F. Martin, "The General and Efficient Synthesis of Phospholipid Analogs as Inhibitors of Bacterial Phosphatidylcholine and Inositol Specific Phospholipase C (Bacillus Cereus)," American Chemical Society Meeting, March 13, 1994.
  8. S.F. Martin, Y.S. Liao, Y.L. Wong, T. Rein, "A Novel Approach to the Asymmetric Synthesis Of Manzamine A - Construction of the Tetracyclic ABCE Ring-system," Tetrahedron Letters, 35, 1994, 691-694.
  9. S. Hansen, E. Hough, L.A. Svensson, Y.L. Wong, S.F. Martin, "Crystal Structure of Phospholipase C from Bacillus Cereus Complexed with a Substrate Analog," Journal of Molecular Biology, 234, 1993, 179-187.

Presentations and Papers in Disciplines Other Than Chemistry and Education

  1. Frederick Chen, Amanda Griffith, Allin Cottrell, Yue-Ling Wong, "Behavioral Responses to Epidemics in an Online Experiment," SMB 2012 Minisymposia, The Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting and Conference, July 25-28, 2012.
  2. A.P. Marsh, E.H. Ip, R.T. Barnard, Y.L.Wong, W.J. Rejeski, "Using Video Animation to Assess Mobility in Older Adults," Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 2011 Feb; 66(2):217-27. Epub 2010 Dec 2.
  3. Edward Ip, Jack Rejeski, Anthony Pecorella, Anthony Marsh, Yue-Ling Wong, "Animation-Enhanced Adaptive Assessment of Patient Reported Outcome in Mobility Disability," ISOQOL (International Study for Quality of Life Research) Conference on Patient Reported Outcomes in Clinical Practice, June 24-26, 2007, Budapest, Hungary.

Performance and Interactive Media Arts

  1. Dance production "Fibonacci + Phi" performed in MainStage Theater, Wake Forest University, December 4-7, 2003. Collaboration with Alban Elved Dance Company.
  2. Dance production "The Bridge" performed in MainStage Theater, Wake Forest University, December 2004. Also a collaboration with Alban Elved Dance Company.