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Programmable Battery as a Computational Crafting Material for Children

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IDC '19: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 668 - 671

https://doi.org/10.1145/3311927.3325342

Published: 12 June 2019 Publication History

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A programmable battery is a tiny computer that children can use to control motors and other devices by manipulating buttons on the board. Since it is simpler to use than other programming and computational tools for children, no detailed instruction is needed to start playing and designing with it. As a result, children can concentrate on their creative activities related to the projects in the workshops. This design also demonstrates the possibilities of computational tools as playthings for children.

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Mori, H. 2017 The Programmable Battery: A tool to make computational making more simple, playful, and meaningful. IDC 17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, pp.515--519

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Programmable Battery as a Computational Crafting Material for Children
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IDC '19: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2019

787 pages

ISBN:9781450366908

DOI:10.1145/3311927

General Chair:
Jerry Alan Fails
Boise State University, USA

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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 12 June 2019

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JSPS KAKENHI

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IDC '19

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SIGCHI

IDC '19: Interaction Design and Children

June 12 - 15, 2019

ID, Boise, USA

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IDC '19 Paper Acceptance Rate 41 of 124 submissions, 33%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 172 of 578 submissions, 30%

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