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VL
2003
IEEE
102views Visual Languages» more  VL 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Programming for communication: overcoming motivational barriers to computation for all
Computer science as a discipline is failing to reach a diverse audience. As a result, computational illiteracy threatens many groups of underserved students—women, minorities an...
Andrea Forte
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
117views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Visual programming and the blind: the challenge and the opportunity
The proliferation of graphical user interfaces has had a dramatic impact on the ability to work as a programmer. It is particularly difficult for the blind to create forms for vis...
Robert M. Siegfried
ACE
2004
188views Education» more  ACE 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
A Computing Education Vision for the Sight Impaired
Vision is the main sensory modality employed in learning. Teaching materials in the areas of information technology and computer engineering are highly visual in nature and vision...
Iain Murray, Helen Armstrong
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Access: news and blog analysis for the social sciences
The social sciences strive to understand the political, social, and cultural world around us, but have been impaired by limited access to the quantitative data sources enjoyed by ...
Mikhail Bautin, Charles B. Ward, Akshay Patil, Ste...
AIEDU
2008
162views more  AIEDU 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Designing Learning by Teaching Agents: The Betty's Brain System
The idea that teaching others is a powerful way to learn is intuitively compelling and supported in the research literature. We have developed computer-based, domain-independent Te...
Krittaya Leelawong, Gautam Biswas