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A Toolkit for Human-Centred Engineering: An Experience with Pre-teens

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IoTgo is an adaptable toolkit for human-centred engineering with micro-electronics. This paper reports on IoTgo for pre-teens. This guided them from exploring the workings of sensors, actuators, and wireless communication to the development of prototypes with them that interact with people. The paper explains the rationale of the toolkit for pre-teens, and what they accomplished with it.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bolzano, Italy

    Rosella Gennari & Soufiane Krik

  2. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino 155, 30170, Venezia Mestre, Italy

    Alessandra Melonio

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  1. University of West London, London, UK

    José Abdelnour Nocera

  2. Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir

  3. University of York, York, UK

    Helen Petrie

  4. University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

    Antonio Piccinno

  5. Université Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

    Marco Winckler

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Gennari, R., Krik, S., Melonio, A. (2023). A Toolkit for Human-Centred Engineering: An Experience with Pre-teens. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14145. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_22

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