Paper Info
Title
Half-baked logo microworlds as boundary objects in integrated design
Abstract
The paper addresses the problem of fragmentation of the communities involved in the design of digital media for education. It draws on the experience gained at the Educational Technology Lab in the design of Logo-based microworlds with three different platforms respectively based on component computing, 3D game engines and 3D navigation with a GIS. In this paper I use the term half-baked to describe a microworld which is explicitly designed to engage its users with changing it as the main aspect of their activity. I discuss this kind of microworld as a tool for integrated design involving people with diverse expertise and/or roles to communicate. These kinds of microworlds implicitly exist within the community, but they can be explicitly designed mediated and put to use in the role of facilitators for integrated design and development to enable a growing communication amongst researchers, technicians, teachers and students. A template for presenting microworlds which was constructed through the experience with four such integrated communities is used to describe for each respective case the design principles, the affordances, the histories of development and the variety of emergent microworlds.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
Informatics in Education
intergated design,diverse expertise,integrated community,malleable,logo-based microworlds,design principle,emergent microworlds,boundary object,digital media,half-baked logo microworlds,component computing,educational technology lab,microworlds,boundary objects.,different platform,integrated design
Field
DocType
Volume
Educational technology,Geographic information system,World Wide Web,Computer science,Logo,Integrated design,Human–computer interaction,Engineering design process,Digital media,Affordance,MicroWorlds
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1648-5831
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chronis Kynigos15313.82