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- short-paperJune 2015
Sketching intentions: comparing different metaphors for programming robots
IDC '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and ChildrenPages 391–394https://doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771924This paper introduces a new environment for programming robots and physical computing devices---the Spatial Computing Platform (SCP)---and compares it to a text-based programming environment (the Cricket Logo). The SCP simplifies the process of ...
- short-paperJune 2015
Interactive design by children: a construct map for programming
- Alexandria K. Hansen,
- Hilary A. Dwyer,
- Charlotte Hill,
- Ashley Iveland,
- Timothy Martinez,
- Danielle Harlow,
- Diana Franklin
IDC '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and ChildrenPages 267–270https://doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771893In this paper, we present our analysis of 92 fourth graders' digital story projects completed in LaPlaya, a Scratch-like programming environment. Projects were analyzed for the way that students programmed the start of the story, and if the program ...
- demonstrationJune 2015
Early math with Gracie & Friends™ demo: app-infused curriculum and teacher support for preschool
IDC '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and ChildrenPages 458–461https://doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771885This paper describes the Early Math with Gracie & Friends™ preschool math curriculum based on the four-year, National Science Foundation-funded Next Generation Preschool Math project. Our team developed and published eight iPad apps, 38 hands-on ...
- demonstrationJune 2015
Seen music: ambient music data visualization for children with hearing impairments
IDC '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and ChildrenPages 426–429https://doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771870In this paper, we propose a prototype of music visualization system that captures and records the music component into digital data form, and then displays the data in visual form for children with hearing impairments. The analog sound data of music ...
- demonstrationJune 2015
ScratchJr demo: a coding language for kindergarten
IDC '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and ChildrenPages 414–417https://doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771867This paper describes the ScratchJr research project, a collaboration between Tufts University's Developmental Technologies Research Group, MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten Group, and the Playful Invention Company. Over the past five years, dozens of ...
- research-articleJune 2015
To block or not to block, that is the question: students' perceptions of blocks-based programming
IDC '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and ChildrenPages 199–208https://doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771860Blocks-based programming tools are becoming increasingly common in high-school introductory computer science classes. Such contexts are quite different than the younger audience and informal settings where these tools are more often used. This paper ...
