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Engaging Pre-teens in Ideating and Programming Smart Objects Through Play

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Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 10th International Conference (MIS4TEL 2020)

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Recent research advocates the role of protagonist for children in design: children should participate across different design stages, from ideation to programming, so that they learn through it. However it is not straightforward how to organise a design workshop with children across different design stages, above all in a short time span. This paper tackles such issue. It presents a workshop with children ideating, programming and prototyping smart objects, structured around a card-based board game, and in the time-span of two days. Results are contextual but support that children’s engagement across design stages can be fostered by the game-based structure.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani 3, Bolzano, Italy

    Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, Mehdi Rizvi & Eftychia Roumelioti

  2. DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio, 34/5, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Maristella Matera

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  1. Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

    Pierpaolo Vittorini

  2. Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

    Tania Di Mascio

  3. Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

    Laura Tarantino

  4. Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Marco Temperini

  5. Computer Science Faculty, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

  6. Department of Computer Science and Automation Control, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Fernando De la Prieta

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Gennari, R., Matera, M., Melonio, A., Rizvi, M., Roumelioti, E. (2020). Engaging Pre-teens in Ideating and Programming Smart Objects Through Play. In: Vittorini, P., Di Mascio, T., Tarantino, L., Temperini, M., Gennari, R., De la Prieta, F. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 10th International Conference. MIS4TEL 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1241. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52538-5_4

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