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Therapists as designers: An initial investigation of end-user programming of a tangible tool for therapeutic interventions
No full textThis paper presents a pilot study on end-user programming by therapists of a tangible tool for children on the autism spectrum. The core design ideas were to use detailed natural language descriptions of states and events, and an incremental process to facilitate the programming task. Our study provides initial evidence of the feasibility of this approach
End-User Programming and Math Teachers: an Initial Study
No full textThis paper presents a pilot study for an initial assessment of a tangible tool to support end-user programming (EUP) by teachers to facilitate learning mathematics in primary school. The study aimed to explore teachers’ reasoning strategies and mental representations during trigger-action rules composition. The pilot study provided initial insight into the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and useful hints for designing a larger and more robust stud
SMARTER: an IoT learning game to teach math
No full textIn this paper, we present the preliminary implementation of SMARTER, a tangible tool for supporting children in learning the basics of mathematics, which has been loosely inspired by the Cuisenaire rods. The tool exploits the power of tangible manipulation offered by physical materials coupled with the possibility of providing contextual and engaging feedback provided by digital tools. An original and important goal of the SMARTER tool is to allow teachers to fully customize the experience of use by exploiting end-user development
Toward a Better Understanding of End-User Debugging Strategies: A Pilot Study
No full textIn this paper, we describe a pilot study aimed to explore strategies used by non-programmer users to test trigger-action rules for customizing an IoT device. The main goal of our research was to examine strategies used by participants to detect and solve errors. In the pilot study, we asked non-programmers to imagine testing a set of rules, some of which were bugged. The pilot study was meant to understand the feasibility of this approach to investigate users' mental models while performing this kind of task
RuleCraft: An End-User Development Hub for Education
No full textPersonalized learning methods have revolutionized education by allowing tailored teaching approaches to meet individual students’ needs. This approach, supported by educational technologies, aims to engage learners with diverse expertise levels by adapting content and methods accordingly. This demo introduces an End-User Development system that empowers teachers to create and define interactive behaviors of educational tools using Trigger-Action Programming (TAP). The system facilitates the creation of "vocabularies" specific to each learning subject and translates them into verbal primitives for trigger-action rule definition. These rules are then used in the customization of interfaces. This demo presents examples using a tangible device and a web-based educational game aimed to enrich education activities in elementary schools. Future directions include studying teachers’ appropriation of the use of TAP to customize learning material as well as adaptation in new domains and with different devices
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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