Essays about: "Clarissa C. De Oliveira"

Found 2 essays containing the words Clarissa C. De Oliveira.

  1. 1. Experience Programming: an exploration of hybrid tangible-virtual block based programming interaction

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Clarissa C. De Oliveira; [2018]
    Keywords : Interaction Design; Accessibility; Experience Prototyping; Hybrid systems; Block based programming; Computing Education; Tangible User Interfaces for learning;

    Abstract : In less than a century, programming languages have assumed many forms in adapting to system’s needs and capacities, of which our cognitive systems are a part. One variation, tailored specifically for the cognitive processes in children’s education of computational concepts, and nowadays successful among novice adult learners too, is that of visual block based programming. READ MORE

  2. 2. Designing educational programming tools for the blind: mitigating the inequality of coding in schools

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Clarissa C. De Oliveira; [2017]
    Keywords : Interaction Design; Accessibility; Co-Design; Blindness; Visual Impairment; Coding; Computer Programming; ICT Education;

    Abstract : This design-based research provides design considerations for developing educational tools for teaching programming to blind primary schoolers, as an effort towards more inclusive classrooms, given that the tools available today are not accessible to these students. Existing tools were analyzed and tested, and co-design practices were applied in exploring ‘instructions’ as a main logic operation for computer programming, through experimenting with diverse types of interfaces, having visually impaired participants at the center of the process. READ MORE