Supporting participation of underrepresented youth in computing using tangible computational craft kits

使用有形的计算工艺套件支持代表性不足的青年参与计算

• 批准号: 2030880
• 负责人: HyunJoo Oh
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2030880&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; participation; underrepresented; youth; computing

Most computers do powerful things but hide their inner workings. Even if students can look inside a computing device, they would find it difficult to understand and manipulate its behavior. This project will develop tangible computing kits to allow students to observe and work with otherwise invisible computing concepts and principles. Students will design, create, modify, and troubleshoot projects using these low-cost electronics components. The project will support inclusive participation in computing by providing learners with these new kits and activities based on culturally-relevant pedagogies. This research will study the impact of this approach upon learners' technical competency beliefs — their self-concepts and beliefs about their knowledge, skills, and ability to learn and work in computing. Strong beliefs in these areas are needed to lower barriers for successful participation in immediate, near, and far future computing education opportunities.This project combines recent innovations in material science, human-computer interaction, and maker-oriented technologies to create new materials and building blocks for physical computing projects. Underrepresented middle school-aged youth — primarily Black, Latino, and female — will use these tools to develop understandings about the functionality and principles that underlie computational objects. Design-based and mixed methods research will be used to study how these tools and culturally-relevant design activities influence middle school youth's practices, participation, and changes to technical competency beliefs. This project is funded by the CS for All: Research and RPPs program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

大多数计算机功能强大，但隐藏其内部工作。即使学生可以看到计算设备的内部，他们也会发现很难理解和操纵它的行为。这个项目将开发有形的计算工具包，让学生观察和工作，否则无形的计算概念和原则。学生将使用这些低成本的电子元件设计，创建，修改和故障排除项目。该项目将支持包容性参与计算，为学习者提供这些新的工具包和基于文化相关知识的活动。本研究将研究这种方法对学习者的技术能力信念的影响-他们的自我概念和信念，他们的知识，技能，学习和工作的能力在计算。在这些领域需要坚定的信念，以降低障碍，成功地参与即时，近，远未来的计算教育机会。该项目结合了材料科学，人机交互和制造商为导向的技术，以创造新的材料和物理计算项目的构建块的最新创新。代表性不足的中学生-主要是黑人，拉丁美洲人和女性-将使用这些工具来发展对计算对象基础的功能和原则的理解。基于设计和混合方法的研究将被用来研究这些工具和文化相关的设计活动如何影响中学生的实践，参与和技术能力信念的变化。该项目由CS for All：Research and RPPs计划资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Beyond prototyping boards: future paradigms for electronics toolkits

• DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3573792
• 发表时间: 2023-04
• 期刊: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• 作者: Andrea Bianchi;S. Hodges;David Cuartielles;Hyun-Man Oh;M. Lambrichts;A. Roudaut

From Unblackboxing to Deblackboxing: Questions about what to make visible in computational making.

从取消黑盒到取消黑盒：关于在计算制作中使什么可见的问题。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing - CHI 22 Workshop: CHI '22 Workshop: Reimagining Systems for Learning Hands-on Creative and Maker Skills
• 作者: Dixon, Colin;Hsi, Sherry;Oh, HyunJoo
• 通讯作者: Oh, HyunJoo

Seamfulness and Culturally Responsive Computing

无缝性和文化响应计算

• DOI: 10.1109/respect55273.2022.00014
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: and Technology (RESPECT
• 作者: Dixon, Colin.;Hsi, Sherry.;Oh, HyunJoo.
• 通讯作者: Oh, HyunJoo.