Designing educational programming tools for the blind: mitigating the inequality of coding in schools
2017 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This design-based research provides design considerations for developing educational tools for teaching programming to blind primary schoolers, as an effort towards more inclusive classrooms, given that the tools available today are not accessible to these students. Existing tools were analyzed and tested, and co-design practices were applied in exploring ‘instructions’ as a main logic operation for computer programming, through experimenting with diverse types of interfaces, having visually impaired participants at the center of the process. Physical and mental patterns, relevant for improving the accessibility of such tools, are unveiled and further discussed in this study.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle , 2017. , p. 44
Keywords [en]
Interaction Design, Accessibility, Co-Design, Blindness, Visual Impairment, Coding, Computer Programming, ICT Education
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22653Local ID: 24473OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-22653DiVA, id: diva2:1482584
Educational program
KS K3 Interaction Design (master)
Supervisors
Examiners
2020-10-272020-10-272022-06-27Bibliographically approved