E-Block: a tangible programming tool for children

Authors:
Danli Wang;Yang Zhang;Tianyuan Gu;Liang He;Hongan Wang
Affiliations:
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Venue:
Adjunct proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Year:
2012

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Abstract

E-Block is a tangible programming tool for children aged 5 to 9 which gives children a preliminary understanding of programming. Children can write programs to play a maze game by placing the programming blocks in E-Block. The two stages in a general programming process: programming and running are all embodied in E-Block. We realized E-Block by wireless and infrared technology and gave it feedbacks on both screen and programming blocks. The result of a preliminary user study proved that E-Block is attractive to children and easy to learn and use.