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Accembly at Home: Accessible Spatial Programming for Children with Visual Impairments and their Families

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Ana Cristina Pires,

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IDC '21: Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference

Pages 100 - 111

https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3460699

Published: 24 June 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Accessible introductory programming environments are scarce, and their study within ecological settings (e.g., at home) is almost non-existent. We present ACCembly, an accessible block-based environment that enables children with visual impairments to perform spatial programming activities. ACCembly allows children to assemble tangible blocks to program a multimodal robot. We evaluated this approach with seven families that used the system autonomously at home. Results showed that both the children and family members learned from what was an inclusive and engaging experience. Children leveraged fundamental computational thinking concepts to solve spatial programming challenges; parents took different roles as mediators, some actively teaching and scaffolding, others learning together with their child. We contribute with an environment that enables children with visual impairments to engage in spatial programming activities, an analysis of parent-child interactions, and reflections on inclusive programming environments within a shared family experience.

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