Designing Educational Materials for a Blind Arduino Workshop

Race, Lauren; Kearney-Volpe, Claire; Fleet, Chancey; Miele, Joshua A.; Igoe, Tom; Hurst, Amy

doi:10.1145/3334480.3383055

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“…As the studies of Vidal et al [17], [18] highlight, several countries implement programming courses to develop algorithmic skills and programming competencies from early ages. One of the inherent challenges of developing programming competencies is to make the teaching-learning process practical and attractive [33]. Applying Arduino and Tinkercad seem adequate to developing electronic and programming competencies by block-based programming language to emulate the functioning of Arduino solutions, and then, to implement the Arduino circuit physically, to generate the code for Arduino, and put it in Arduino circuit to run the solution.…”

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Exploiting Arduino Features to Develop Programming Competencies

Tupac-Yupanqui

Vidal-Silva²,

Pavesi-Farriol

et al. 2022

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Developing programming competencies is essential for systems, information science, computer science, and electrical engineering students. Engineering students usually face the complexity of working with programming languages that demand compliance with syntactic and semantic rules, which typically represent a daunting task for novice students. Watching textual messages on the screen only, like the classic "hello world" is no longer attractive in the current information society, a missing motivation and possible obstacle to developing programming competencies. Students would like to interact with hardware and appreciate environmental reactions. Arduino board permits developing solutions like that. This article presents the academic experience of first-year students of Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática at the Universidad Continental (ISI-UC) of Huancayo, Perú, using the Arduino microcontroller board for the teaching-learning process to develop programming competencies. The results obtained show a positive impact regarding the previous year's experience using traditional text-based programming languages. Using Arduino, students create digital circuits and computational electronics competencies, another significant benefit. This experience used an online simulator, and the results obtained permit us to plan future online education strategies for this major. Next step will be the application of Arduino and the online simulator to deepen the programming competencies including recursivity, real time constraints , multitasking features, data structure and object-oriented programming. The main limitations encountered in this experiment were the student limitations regarding electronics concepts in order to build up circuits and in in some cases low internet speeds to attend online education. Performing simulated experiences in classes were not a big challenge for teachers and most students. Nevertheless, problems could appear when performing practical experiences using real Arduino boards, which would may not be available in traditional classes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploiting Arduino Features to Develop Programming Competencies

Tupac-Yupanqui

Vidal-Silva²,

Pavesi-Farriol

et al. 2022

IEEE Access

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“…In further work, the authors want to evaluate if the feedback provided by the robot is adequate for visually impaired persons. In [170] more than a device or AT, the experience to teach and design educational materials for Arduino concepts in a community of blind students is explained. The educational materials include piezo tactile schematics, and both component diagram and circuit description feedback.…”

Section: Educational Devices and Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Low-Cost Assistive Technologies for Disabled People Using Open-Source Hardware and Software: A Systematic Literature Review

Ariza

Pearce

2022

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Disabled People deal with a series of barriers that limit their inclusion, empowerment, wellbeing, and role in society with a special emphasis in low and medium-income countries. One of these barriers is concerning the accessibility and affordability of assistive technologies (ATs) that help to enhance the quality of life of these persons. In this context, this systematic literature review (SLR) analyzes and describes how free and open-source hardware (OSHW) and open software (OSS) are employed in the design, development, and deployment of low-cost ATs. In the SLR process, different ATs were analyzed for disabilities such as visual, mobility, upper body, prostheses, hearing & speaking, daily living, and participation in society. The ATs were designed with diverse OSHW and OSS technologies such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi, NVidia Jeston, OpenCV, YOLO, MobileNet, EEG and EMG signal conditioning devices, actuators, and sensors such as ultrasonic, LiDar, or flex. 809 studies were collected and analyzed from the database Web of Science, GitHub, and the specialized journals in OSHW HardwareX and the Journal of Open Hardware during the years 2013-2022. In the first part of the SLR, the bibliometric trends and topic clusters regarding the selected studies are described. Secondly, the ATs identified with open source technologies, e.g., sensor-based or computer vision-based, are described along with a complete state-ofart about these based on each disability recognized. Finally, the issues and challenges to this approach are explored including technical factors, documentation, government policies, and the inclusion of disabled people in open source co-creation. The purpose of this study is to inform practitioners, designers, or stakeholders about low-cost (frugal) ATs with OSHW and OSS, and thus promote their development, accessibility, and affordability, contributing to benefit the community of disabled people. INDEX TERMS Assistive technologies, disabled people, persons with disabilities, adaptive aids, open hardware, open-source hardware, open-source software, systematic literature review.

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