Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19149
Title: Indirect Interaction: A Computing Lecture for Five to Seven Year-Olds
Contributor(s): Billingsley, William  (author)orcid ; Kwan, Paul H  (author)
Publication Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1145/2908805.2909410
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19149
Abstract: Most papers on introducing children to computing assume the children will interact directly with the technology or task. In this paper, we reflect on a case of designing for indirect interaction - where it is not the children's hands but a facilitator's on the device. The context is a computing lecture we gave for twenty-six children aged between five and seven years old. This was specifically designed to give a stylized experience of being a university student - it is self-consciously a lecture emphasising student-teacher interaction around code. We found a technique from undergraduate engineering education - a partially exposed simulation in a text-based programming language - allowed imaginative interaction from the children as they discovered they could model the impossible.
Publication Type: Conference Publication
Conference Details: DIS 2016: 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Brisbane, Australia, 4th - 8th June, 2016
Source of Publication: DIS 2016 Companion: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, p. 145-148
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Place of Publication: New York, United States of America
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)
120304 Digital and Interaction Design
080602 Computer-Human Interaction
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 460806 Human-computer interaction
390304 Primary education
460804 Computing education
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies
970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences
930499 School/Institution not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 160304 Teaching and instruction technologies
280115 Expanding knowledge in the information and computing sciences
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: E1 Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication
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