Evaluating Aspects of Usability in Video Game-Based Programming Learning Platforms

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Autor(a) principal: Díaz, Jaime
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Arango-López, Jeferson, Sepúlveda, Samuel, Ramírez Villegas, Gabriel Mauricio, Ahumada, Danay, Moreira, Fernando
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/3417
Resumo: Teaching computer programming is an important topic. Due to Science and Technology initiatives, these topics are considered in different training cycles. For higher education, students must cultivate fundamental concepts for the development of software applications, which not only contribute to the knowledge of programming languages but also to opening guidelines for computational thinking. However, selecting a proper tool can be complex. Especially for the diversity of alternatives on the web. Further, not all of them meet basic usability requirements. In this study, we present a set of platforms that seek to develop programming skills based on video games. The search consisted of 4 stages: (i) definition of the research questions, (ii) scope review, (iii) execution of search and (iv) platform selection. Finally, we employ a usability heuristic evaluation for a novice programming system to determine best practices.
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title Evaluating Aspects of Usability in Video Game-Based Programming Learning Platforms
spellingShingle Evaluating Aspects of Usability in Video Game-Based Programming Learning Platforms
Díaz, Jaime
Human-Computer Interaction
Usability
Video-games
Training
Computer Programming
title_short Evaluating Aspects of Usability in Video Game-Based Programming Learning Platforms
title_full Evaluating Aspects of Usability in Video Game-Based Programming Learning Platforms
title_fullStr Evaluating Aspects of Usability in Video Game-Based Programming Learning Platforms
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating Aspects of Usability in Video Game-Based Programming Learning Platforms
title_sort Evaluating Aspects of Usability in Video Game-Based Programming Learning Platforms
author Díaz, Jaime
author_facet Díaz, Jaime
Arango-López, Jeferson
Sepúlveda, Samuel
Ramírez Villegas, Gabriel Mauricio
Ahumada, Danay
Moreira, Fernando
author_role author
author2 Arango-López, Jeferson
Sepúlveda, Samuel
Ramírez Villegas, Gabriel Mauricio
Ahumada, Danay
Moreira, Fernando
author2_role author
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author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Díaz, Jaime
Arango-López, Jeferson
Sepúlveda, Samuel
Ramírez Villegas, Gabriel Mauricio
Ahumada, Danay
Moreira, Fernando
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Human-Computer Interaction
Usability
Video-games
Training
Computer Programming
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Usability
Video-games
Training
Computer Programming
description Teaching computer programming is an important topic. Due to Science and Technology initiatives, these topics are considered in different training cycles. For higher education, students must cultivate fundamental concepts for the development of software applications, which not only contribute to the knowledge of programming languages but also to opening guidelines for computational thinking. However, selecting a proper tool can be complex. Especially for the diversity of alternatives on the web. Further, not all of them meet basic usability requirements. In this study, we present a set of platforms that seek to develop programming skills based on video games. The search consisted of 4 stages: (i) definition of the research questions, (ii) scope review, (iii) execution of search and (iv) platform selection. Finally, we employ a usability heuristic evaluation for a novice programming system to determine best practices.
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