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Investigating the Barriers Experienced by Adult End-User Developers When Physical Prototyping

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2015)

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The Maker Movement and technologies it has spawned, such as the popular Arduino platform, continue to entice end-users - artists, designers, researchers, hobbyists - into constructing and programming microcontroller-based prototypes. Referred to as physical prototyping, this type of activity requires applying programming and electronics concepts, and understanding how the two relate. However, new end-user developers (EUDs) may lack experience in one or both areas. While the platforms now available make it easier to connect sensors and actuators to a microcontroller and program their behaviour, it is still unclear to what degree the learning and application barriers have been lowered for adult EUDs.

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  1. Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City University London, London, UK

    Tracey Booth

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  1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain

    Paloma Díaz

  2. Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

    Volkmar Pipek

  3. Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo Ardito

  4. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

    Carlos Jensen

  5. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain

    Ignacio Aedo

  6. Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, St. Augustin, Germany

    Alexander Boden

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Booth, T. (2015). Investigating the Barriers Experienced by Adult End-User Developers When Physical Prototyping. In: Díaz, P., Pipek, V., Ardito, C., Jensen, C., Aedo, I., Boden, A. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9083. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18425-8_25

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