Mikael Kindborg
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a study of how five-year-old preschool children used a behaviour-based visual programming toolkit called Magic Words. The system represents behaviours with contextual word pads that are placed on graphical characters. The purpose of the study was to see how the children would use the tool when playing with it in an open-ended way. Our conclusion is that behaviour-based programming with contextual signs has a high level of directness, but support is needed to learn behaviours that do not give instant feedback.
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