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This paper studies the first computing education summer camp of its kind in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were performed with six of the camp's instructors focusing on their teaching experiences in relation to the instructional content and the children. The instructors struggled with meeting the wide range in children's programming experience, suggesting a lack of pedagogical knowledge. The results...
As the birth rates in Taiwan continue to decline, parents will pay more attention to the coming generation of children and thinking about how to educate them. Many small children spend much time watching television, playing electronic games or using the internet, and less time reading. Pop-up books provide wonderful reading experience with its' interesting interaction and vivid content, becoming an...
Information systems projects nowadays often affect more stakeholders than before and the range of users is also more versatile. Thus, a need for a fine-grained conceptualization of involved actors, including users and developers as well as various other affected stakeholder groups, has been identified in the literature. Some studies have already discussed participatory processes for information infrastructure...
M-learning has emerged due to advancement in development of mobile technology, and takes place in language learning by utilizing the portability and wide use of mobile phone. Researches on m-learning were conducted to serve the best way to adopt language learning via mobile phone thus Iban language has been chosen to be implemented as a mobile dialogue-based application to promote language learning...
The idea of autonomous social robots capable of assisting us in our daily lives is becoming more real every day. However, there are still many open issues regarding the social capabilities that those robots should have in order to make daily interactions with humans more natural. For example, the role of affective interactions is still unclear. This paper presents an ethnographic study conducted in...
A child version of mental accounting tasks has been administrated on 180 3- to 5-year-olds to tentatively investigate the development of young children's mental accounting. The results show that the development of young children's mental accounting varies along with age in the three ways in which the non-fungibility effect of mental accounting takes effect. In the expenditure loss task (ELT), mental...
Children in this world almost immersed in the environment of brands. Acquiring brand knowledge is necessary for children to adapt to the complicated consumer environment and grow as a sophisticated consumer. This research investigated the development of 3-7-year-old children's brand awareness by using preference judgment. The result showed that: (1) By the age of 5, children showed preference for...
Centuries ago, the existence of life was explained by the presence of a soul [1]. Known as animism, this term was re-defined in the 1970s by Piaget as young children's beliefs that inanimate objects are capable of actions and have lifelike qualities. With the development of robots in the 21st century, researchers have yet to examine whether animism is apparent in children's impressions of robots....
Our paper presents a field study arranged at a Finnish primary school where two classes and a total of 23 pupils between the ages of 6 and 8 trialed an attendance supervision system supported by Near Field Communication technology in 2008. In the trial the pupils marked their arrival at and departure from the school by touching a reader device or NFC-enabled mobile phone with a smart contactless card...
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