TurTan: A tangible programming language for creative exploration

Gallardo, Daniel; Juliá, Carles F.; Jordà, Sergi

doi:10.1109/tabletop.2008.4660189

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“…In the context of tabletop technology, TurTan is a tangible programming language for creative exploration that has successfully combined the main Logo concepts with the interaction mechanisms offered by interactive tabletops [11]. The work does not report on user evaluation on either learning or creativity, although the authors do mention the necessity to explore these dimensions as the system is oriented towards young children.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring tabletops as an effective tool to foster creativity traits

Catalá

Jaén

Dijk

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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Creativity is a relevant characteristic for people's development as it facilitates the generation of new ideas and innovation processes. Although technology has played an important role on creativity stimulation, it still needs to be explored for a better understanding and support in the context of information and communication technologies. In this paper a basic creativity assessment model is presented and an empirical study has been conducted whose aim is to get insight into whether an interactive surface as base technology for collaborative creative tasks is promising in terms of both collaboration and creativity traits. In the study two tabletop-based platforms (a digitally-augmented, and a physical-only without computer mediation) were involved to solve a problem consisting of creating Rube-Goldberg machines. From these experiments, we have observed that in terms of creativity traits, interactive surfaces seem promising as groups working in the digital platform showed significantly more performance in fluency of thinking, were more motivated, and novelty was found near to significance. Also some issues related to collaboration and interaction were analyzed. In particular, the co-operation, the retrial fine adjustment, and the dominance showed that the properties of an interactive surface tabletop suits better for facilitating the sharing of objects and participation in conditions of co-operation by co-located participants.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring tabletops as an effective tool to foster creativity traits

Catalá

Jaén

Dijk

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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“…They encourage intrinsic motivation and provide optimal learning experiences in which users are motivated to learn the effects of an action on the behavior of the interactive world by manipulating tangible elements. This has been recently showed in different areas such as music creation and performance [19] [20] or Logo programming [21]. We are convinced that this type of exploratory interfaces will constitute the ideal platform for the non-trivial tasks involved in game definition and programing, such as the definition of the reactive behaviour, workflows and choreographies of the game involved entities, and the relations and interactions between them.…”

Section: Creative Learning and Interactive Tabletopsmentioning

confidence: 80%

AGORAS: Exploring Creative Learning on Tangible User Interfaces

Catalá

Jaén

Martinez-Villaronga

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE 35th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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Abstract-Departing from creative learning foundations, this paper discusses on the suitability of interactive tables as a grounding technology to support creative learning for several reasons: support for social learning, because the subjects share a physical space as in traditional non-digital technologies; communication during the creative, experimental and reflexive process is direct and not computer-mediated; and subjects can carry out the task in parallel on the same surface. Considering reflection, discussion and creation processes in a loop, an experiment with teenagers has been conducted comparing a digital-based against a pure tangible tabletop in a task of creating entities consisting of blocks and joint elements. This preliminary study, designed to obtain initial insights about whether the grounding technology may become a promising tool to support creative learning, explores some aspects such as productivity, complexity of designs and concurrent comanipulation. The results showed that subjects were more productive in terms of the number of solutions obtained using the non computer-mediated approach. However using the digital tabletop approach subjects design, on average, more complex or elaborate solutions in terms of the number of involved bodies and joints. Finally, an important finding was that teams established more frequently concurrent cooperation schemes in the digital tabletop condition by sharing more effectively the creation space.

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“…Two-dimensional tangible logic can be created with programming environments such as Algoblocks [10], Flow blocks [11], Questzal [12], Tern [13], SmartTiles [14], QuiltSnaps [15], Tangible Programming Brick [16], reacTable [17], and Turtan [18]. reacTable and Turtan are interactive programming systems in which the results of program changes are immediately visible to the user.…”

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Cluster-based tangible programming

Smith

2014

2014 Fourth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications (DICTAP)

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Clustering is the act of grouping items that belong together. In this paper we explore clustering as a means to construct tangible program logic, and specifically as a means to use multiple tangible objects collectively as a single tangible program parameter. We introduce T-logo, a simple tangible programming environment developed to test the concept of cluster-based programming. Although the principle of clusterbased programming is technology agnostic, we describe it here by means of a vision-based system. We further introduce the concepts of Cluster Marker, Cluster Marker Position, and Cluster Marker Zone to describe the principles on which clusterbased programming is based.Keywords-construct, physical program logic, intangible program logic, tangible program logic, free-form construction, cluster.

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TurTan: A tangible programming language for creative exploration

Cited by 47 publications

References 7 publications

Exploring tabletops as an effective tool to foster creativity traits

Exploring tabletops as an effective tool to foster creativity traits

AGORAS: Exploring Creative Learning on Tangible User Interfaces

Cluster-based tangible programming

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