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Democratizing children's engagement with the internet of things through connectUs

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Zuzanna Lechelt,

Yvonne Rogers,

Nicolai Marquardt,

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UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2971435

Published: 12 September 2016 Publication History

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The emerging Internet of Things (IoT), through which billions of everyday objects are becoming embedded with the abilities to sense their environment, compute data, and wirelessly connect to other devices, has been widely recognized as the new disruptive technology of our time. The predicted ubiquity of connected devices indicates that IoT technologies are quickly becoming an important part of the digital fluency curriculum, however, no research yet exists on suitable pedagogical approaches for teaching children about the IoT. The current research explores the design and deployment of a pedagogical approach and associated tangible toolkit, ConnectUs, that will enable 10-13 year old children to explore and design for the Internet of Things.

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Democratizing children's engagement with the internet of things through connectUs
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Computer-assisted instruction
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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September 2016

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DOI:10.1145/2968219

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