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PhidgetLab: crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects

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ITiCSE '10: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 73 - 77

https://doi.org/10.1145/1822090.1822112

Published: 26 June 2010 Publication History

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Teaching pupils the ideas behind objects in programming languages can be difficult since these concepts are mostly abstract and not comprehensible at first sight. Etoys as a visual programming environment counters such issues by introducing visible objects and simple tiles for programming them. However, all of these objects can only be experienced virtually on the screen. This paper presents PhidgetLab, a programming environment for electronic components (Phidgets) realised on top of the Etoys environment. PhidgetLab helps crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects. Pupils interact with tangible objects that are seamlessly connected to the digital world. PhidgetLab was evaluated in a case study with 22 pupils, following the principles of the Design Thinking methodology and comprised the realisation of five prototypes within a short period of time.

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PhidgetLab: crossing the border from virtual to real-world objects
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information systems education

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ITiCSE '10: Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2010

344 pages

ISBN:9781605588209

DOI:10.1145/1822090

General Chairs:
Reyyan Ayfer
Bilkent University, Turkey
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Qatar University, Qatar
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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA

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Perelman GSerrano MRaynal MPicard CDerras MDubois EFoth MJu WSchroeter RViller S(2016)DECOProceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/2901790.2901893(435-446)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2016
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Qi YWang DZhang LShi YBegole BKim JInkpen KWoo W(2015)TanProStoryProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2702613.2732806(1001-1006)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702613.2732806
Harriman JTheodore MGross MVerplank BJu WAntle AMazalek AMueller F(2015)The Kitsch-InstrumentProceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/2677199.2680593(141-144)Online publication date: 15-Jan-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2677199.2680593

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