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Touch Wire: Interactive Tangible Electricty Game for Kids

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Michael Saenz,

Joshua Strunk,

Sharon Lynn Chu,

Jinsil Hwaryoung SeoAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 655 - 659

https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2687912

Published: 15 January 2015 Publication History

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This paper presents Touch Wire, a learning environment for teaching the basics of electricity and electronic design to young children. Touch Wire combines a digital touch screen interface with tangible components to bring the concepts of electronic circuitry to the forefront, while removing the tedium of tasks such as wiring for young children. Grounded in constructivist theories of learning, Touch Wire will overlay information about the underlying electrical mechanics on the tablet interface to scaffold children's learning of electronics. Our demonstrations have given us insight into how to best move forward developing the blended tangible and graphical interfaces of Touch Wire to both enhance the fun experience for children and support their learning of electronic circuitry.

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Touch Wire: Interactive Tangible Electricty Game for Kids
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

January 2015

766 pages

ISBN:9781450333054

DOI:10.1145/2677199

Conference Chairs:
Bill Verplank
Stanford University, USA
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Wendy Ju
Stanford University, USA
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Program Chairs:
Alissa Antle
Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Ali Mazalek
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Florian "Floyd" Mueller
RMIT, Australia

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