AgentCubes: raising the ceiling of end-user development in education through incremental 3D (2006)
| Venue: | IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL LANGUAGES AND HUMANCENTRIC COMPUTING, 2006 |
| Citations: | 9 - 7 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Repenning06agentcubes:raising,
author = {Alexander Repenning and Andri Ioannidou},
title = {AgentCubes: raising the ceiling of end-user development in education through incremental 3D},
booktitle = {IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON VISUAL LANGUAGES AND HUMANCENTRIC COMPUTING, 2006},
year = {2006},
publisher = {IEEE Press}
}
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Abstract
Now that we have end-user programming environments capable of empowering kids with no programming background to build games in a matter of hours, a new quest for raising the ceiling of enduser development is emerging. Environments not only focusing on programming, but also including rich media such as 3D, could work as compelling tools for introducing information technology at the K-12 level, addressing even the problem of dwindling numbers of computer science student enrollments at universities. The new challenge is raising the ceiling without raising the threshold. Based on our experience with AgentSheets, which has been used worldwide for computational science and game design applications,
