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Title:
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COMPUTATION AND CONSTRUCTION KITS: TOWARD THE NEXT GENERATION OF TANGIBLE BUILDING MEDIA FOR CHILDREN |
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Author(s):
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Michael Eisenberg , Leah Buechley , Nwanua Elumeze |
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ISBN:
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972-98947-7-9 |
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Editors:
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Kinshuk, Demetrios Sampson and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2004 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Construction kits, educational technology, embedded computing. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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423 |
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Last Page:
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426 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Construction kits represent a venerable, creative, and (occasionally) even beautiful genre of educational toys for children. Nonetheless, traditional construction kits have limitations as educational media. In the past decade, a number of research efforts have attempted to address these limitations by augmenting construction kit design with various types of computational media. This paper describes two new prototypes of computationally-enhanced construction kits; unlike previous efforts, these newer kits allow for large numbers of mutually-interacting, computationally complex, geometrically innovative, and user-programmable pieces. We describe the current (still-early) state of these systems, and discuss plausible directions for future development and research. |
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