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Empowering Students as Leaders of Co-Design for Block-Based Programming

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Nicholas Lytle,

Veronica Cateté,

Tiffany BarnesAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585775

Published: 19 April 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Educational software is rarely co-designed with teachers and students. We have created a novel co-design process that can help both teachers and students learn about human-computer interaction (HCI) and research methods while contributing to the design of educational systems that will benefit future students and teachers. We investigated the results of our process of mentoring two undergraduate students to lead participatory design (PD) sessions with three K-12 teachers. We found that this process exposed teachers and undergraduates to HCI research and design techniques, empowered undergraduates to lead design sessions, and encouraged knowledge transfer between the groups. Our lessons learned include ways to prepare students inexperienced with HCI to lead PD, with training in the participants’ domain, practice sessions, and predefined PD methods to adapt for their context. Our recommendations for future design collaborations can also provide insights to empower undergraduate students or less experienced teams and participants to benefit from participatory design efforts.

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Index Terms

Empowering Students as Leaders of Co-Design for Block-Based Programming
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI
    2. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies

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Morgan MGash KLudi STruong T(2024)Investigating the Usability of Coding Applications for Children: Insights from Teacher Interviews2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)10.1109/VL/HCC60511.2024.00016(47-58)Online publication date: 2-Sep-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/VL/HCC60511.2024.00016
Goswami LZeinoddin PEstier TCherubini M(2023)Supporting Collaboration in Introductory Programming Classes Taught in Hybrid Mode: A Participatory Design StudyProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3596042(1248-1262)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3596042
Limke ALytle NMahmoud SLin MHill MCateté VBarnes T(2023)Participatory Design with Teachers for Block-Based Learning with SnapClass2023 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)10.1109/VL-HCC57772.2023.00028(173-178)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/VL-HCC57772.2023.00028

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