บุษภาณี พงษ์ศิริยาภรณ์. Configurable tangible programming based on event programming. Master's Degree(Design and Planning). King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. KMUTT Library. : King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, 2017.
Configurable tangible programming based on event programming
Abstract:
Programming is an essential skill for future workfoce in controlling smart homes, intelligen products, interactive products, robots and automation. In fact, not so many users have learmed programming before. Form the previous studies, tangible programming is found to increase effectiveness on novice users. They can program by connceting physical building blocks together to control interactive products without having to connect to any personal computers. The problem of existing tangible programming is that it cannot be used for the complexed tasks. The aim of this research is to develop a new tangible programming based on event which is more approariate for sophisticated tasks. The new design hardware named C-TAN which includes two main parts of device hub and command block. Intermediate users tested with the existing (LittleBits) and event tangible programming (C-TAN). The results show that the leaning curve of LittleBits is better than C-TAN in easy and normal taks. Nevertheless, the C-TAN satisfies users more on the difficult tasks by using less modules comparing to existing ones. It also benefits in terms of flexibility of managing modules and enhancing
customization. In term of STEM, C-TAN encourage the problem-solving skill.