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ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Constructivism, virtual reality and tools to support design
This paper describes a process for creating a design tool, which is based in constructivism. The process is described for the creation of a tool to help novices in designing virtu...
Cara Winterbottom, Edwin H. Blake
ITS
2010
Springer
122views Multimedia» more  ITS 2010»
14 years 21 days ago
DynaLearn: Architecture and Approach for Investigating Conceptual System Knowledge Acquisition
DynaLearn is an Interactive Learning Environment that facilitates a constructive approach to developing a conceptual understanding of how systems work. The software can be put in d...
Bert Bredeweg, Jochem Liem, Floris Linnebank, Ren&...
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
218views Education» more  SIGCSE 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Participatory design in a human-computer interaction course: teaching ethnography methods to computer scientists
Empirical evidence shows the ability for computer technology to deliver on its promises of enhancing our quality of life relies on how well the application fits our understanding ...
Jerry B. Weinberg, Mary L. Stephen
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Storytelling alice motivates middle school girls to learn computer programming
We describe Storytelling Alice, a programming environment that introduces middle school girls to computer programming as a means to the end of creating 3D animated stories. Storyt...
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy F. Pausch, Sara B. Kiesler
ACMACE
2007
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Tangible interfaces for real-time 3D virtual environments
Emergent game formats, such as machinima, that use game worlds as expressive 3D performance spaces have new expressive powers with an increase of the quality of their underlying g...
Ali Mazalek, Michael Nitsche