Mapping the landscape of creativity support tools in HCI

J Frich, L MacDonald Vermeulen, C Remy… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Creativity Support Tools (CSTs) play a fundamental role in the study of creativity in Human-
Computer Interaction (HCI). Even so, there is no consensus definition of the term'CST'in HCI …

Evaluating creativity support tools in HCI research

C Remy, L MacDonald Vermeulen, J Frich… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The design and development of Creativity Support Tools (CSTs) is of growing interest in
research at the intersection of creativity and Human-Computer Interaction, and has been …

Chartdetective: Easy and accurate interactive data extraction from complex vector charts

D Masson, S Malacria, D Vogel, E Lank… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Extracting underlying data from rasterized charts is tedious and inaccurate; values might be
partially occluded or hard to distinguish, and the quality of the image limits the precision of …

Hackers, computers, and cooperation: A critical history of logo and constructionist learning

MG Ames - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
This paper examines the history of the learning theory" constructionism" and its most well-
known implementation, Logo, to examine beliefs involving both" C's" in CSCW: computers …

A multiyear investigation of student computational thinking concepts, practices, and perspectives in an after-school computing program

C Mouza, YC Pan, H Yang… - Journal of Educational …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this work, we examine whether repeated participation in an after-school computing
program influenced student learning of computational thinking concepts, practices, and …

Youth computational participation in the wild: Understanding experience and equity in participating and programming in the online scratch community

DA Fields, YB Kafai, MT Giang - ACM Transactions on Computing …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Most research in primary and secondary computing education has focused on
understanding learners within formal classroom communities, leaving aside the growing …

Skill progression in MIT app inventor

B Xie, H Abelson - … IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper contributes to the growing body of research that attempts to measure online,
informal learning. We analyze skill progression in MIT App Inventor, an informal online …

Flowboard: How seamless, live, flow-based programming impacts learning to code for embedded electronics

A Brocker, R Schäfer, C Remy, S Voelker… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Toolkits like the Arduino system have brought embedded programming to STEM education.
However, learning embedded programming is still hard, requiring an understanding of …

Understanding the relationship between computational thinking and computational participation: a case study from Scratch online community

B Jiang, W Zhao, X Gu, C Yin - Educational Technology Research and …, 2021 - Springer
Social learning theory posits that learning is most effective when providing learners with
opportunities to observe and interact with peers. Unfortunately, current K-12 programming …

Replication in computing education research: researcher attitudes and experiences

A Ahadi, A Hellas, P Ihantola, A Korhonen… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Replicability is a core principle of the scientific method. However, several scientific
disciplines have suffered crises in confidence caused, in large part, by attitudes toward …