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Interaction Styles in Alice: Notes and Observations from Computer Animation Workshops

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Leonel Morales Díaz,

Laura S. Gaytán-Lugo,

Lissette FleckAuthors Info & Claims

CLIHC '15: Proceedings of the Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2824893.2824910

Published: 18 November 2015 Publication History

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After several years conducting workshops on computer animation with Alice, a free platform for three dimensional computer animation created by Carnegie Mellon University, a pattern of styles of use was detected. It appears that participants in such workshops engage with the platform in one of four ways: 1) following instructions and copying the animation that the instructor is showing, 2) creating rich and visually attractive scenes with little or no movement, 3) inventing dialogue-based stories and placing characters in the scene to act them, and 4) scripting complex movement-rich scenes that use advanced features of Alice. In this paper we recount how we came to notice the patterns, describe the styles in detail, propose a process to validate their consistency across groups and events, and discuss why studying these styles could be relevant and revealing.

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Diaz LLopez L(2017)A Classification of Programming Styles in ScratchProceedings of the 8th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3151470.3156639(1-4)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3151470.3156639
Morales Díaz LGaytán-Lugo L(2016)Computer Animation as a Vehicle for Teaching Computational ThinkingICT for Promoting Human Development and Protecting the Environment10.1007/978-3-319-44447-5_6(53-59)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44447-5_6

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Interaction Styles in Alice: Notes and Observations from Computer Animation Workshops
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Simulation by animation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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CLIHC '15: Proceedings of the Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction

November 2015

135 pages

ISBN:9781450339605

DOI:10.1145/2824893

General Chair:
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Universidad de las Américas Puebla (México)
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ITSON (México)
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Renata Fortes
University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

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Diaz LLopez L(2017)A Classification of Programming Styles in ScratchProceedings of the 8th Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3151470.3156639(1-4)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3151470.3156639
Morales Díaz LGaytán-Lugo L(2016)Computer Animation as a Vehicle for Teaching Computational ThinkingICT for Promoting Human Development and Protecting the Environment10.1007/978-3-319-44447-5_6(53-59)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44447-5_6

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