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Supporting Museums and Robot Theatre Using Quando - an Event First, Visual Block Toolset

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This paper describes the concepts that have emerged within Quando, an end user toolset, used for creating digital interactives through browser based code generation for museums and theatre. End user focused concepts and recommendations have been identified with Research through Design, including the ability to create new visual blocks as part of the toolset.

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    Currently only one other variable exists - ‘txt’ that represents strings.

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    This code has been reduced for clarity by manually removing less used parameters.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Andrew Stratton, Balraj Johal & Andrei Clopotel

  2. Information School, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    David Cameron

  3. Department of Music, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Dorothy Ker

  4. Forced Entertainment, Sheffield, UK

    Terry O’Connor

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  1. Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Daniela Fogli

  2. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Daniel Tetteroo

  3. University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Barbara Rita Barricelli

  4. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Simone Borsci

  5. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  6. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George A. Papadopoulos

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Stratton, A., Cameron, D., Ker, D., O’Connor, T., Johal, B., Clopotel, A. (2021). Supporting Museums and Robot Theatre Using Quando - an Event First, Visual Block Toolset. In: Fogli, D., Tetteroo, D., Barricelli, B.R., Borsci, S., Markopoulos, P., Papadopoulos, G.A. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12724. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79840-6_16

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