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TLogic: A Tangible Programming Tool to Help Children Solve Problems

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E-Learning and Games (Edutainment 2018)

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In this paper, we present TLogic, a tangible programming tool for children aged 6–8. The tool contains two parts: tangible programming blocks and visual tasks with different difficulty levels. Children could use tangible programming blocks to complete visual tasks shown on computer screen. To evaluate our tool, a user study was conducted with 10 children. Results of user study show that the tool could reduce children’s cognitive load while solving the tasks and children are more interested in challenging tasks than easy tasks in our tool.

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Acknowledgment

This research is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program under Grant No. 2016YFB0401202, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61672507, 61272325, 61501463 and 61562063.

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xiaozhou Deng, Danli Wang & Qiao Jin

  2. School of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xiaozhou Deng & Qiao Jin

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  1. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Abdennour El Rhalibi

  2. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  3. Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China

    Haiyan Jin

  4. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Dandan Ding

  5. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia

    Andres A. Navarro-Newball

  6. Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, China

    Yinghui Wang

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Deng, X., Wang, D., Jin, Q. (2019). TLogic: A Tangible Programming Tool to Help Children Solve Problems. In: El Rhalibi, A., Pan, Z., Jin, H., Ding, D., Navarro-Newball, A., Wang, Y. (eds) E-Learning and Games. Edutainment 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23712-7_35

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