Strawbies: Explorations in tangible programming

Felix Hu; Ariel Zekelman; Michael Horn; Frances Judd

doi:10.1145/2771839.2771866

Strawbies: Explorations in tangible programming

Felix Hu, Ariel Zekelman, Michael Horn, Frances Judd

School of Education and Social Policy

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Abstract

In this demo we present Strawbies, a realtime tangible programming game designed for children ages 5 to 10. Strawbies is played by constructing physical programs out of wooden tiles in front of an iPad. This interaction is made possible with the use of an Osmo play system that includes a mirror to reflect images in front of the iPad through the frontfacing camera. We combined this system with the TopCodes computer vision library for fast and reliable image recognition. Here we describe a set of principles that guided our iterative design process along with an overview of testing sessions with children that informed our most recent instantiation of Strawbies. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IDC 2015
Subtitle of host publication	The 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	410-413
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450335904
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771866
State	Published - Jun 21 2015
Event	14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2015 - Boston, United States Duration: Jun 21 2015 → Jun 24 2015

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Other	14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	6/21/15 → 6/24/15

Keywords

Children
Games
Programming
Strawberries
Tangibles

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Education
Software

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Hu, F, Zekelman, A, Horn, M & Judd, F 2015, Strawbies: Explorations in tangible programming. in Proceedings of IDC 2015: The 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children., 2771866, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 410-413, 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2015, Boston, United States, 6/21/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2771839.2771866

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