Paper Info
Title
StoryCoder: Teaching Computational Thinking Concepts Through Storytelling in a Voice-Guided App for Children
Abstract
ABSTRACT Computational thinking (CT) education reaches only a fraction of young children, in part because CT learning tools often require expensive hardware or fluent literacy. Informed by needfinding interviews, we developed a voice-guided smartphone application leveraging storytelling as a creative activity by which to teach CT concepts to 5- to 8-year-old children. The app includes two storytelling games where users create and listen to stories as well as four CT games where users then modify those stories to learn about sequences, loops, events, and variables. We improved upon the app design through wizard-of-oz testing (N = 28) and iterative design testing (N = 22) before conducting an evaluation study (N = 22). Children were successfully able to navigate the app, effectively learn about the target computing concepts, and, after using the app, children demonstrated above-chance performance on a near transfer CT concept recognition task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411764.3445039
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
children, computational thinking, storytelling, voice user interface
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Griffin Dietz101.01
JK Le200.34
N. Burçin Tamer331.10
J Han400.34
Hyowon Gweon51015.77
Elizabeth L. Murnane614517.57
James A. Landay77457653.08