Learning support system for media representation education through physical computing

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26750089
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Yamanashi Eiwa College
• Principal Investigator: Sugiura Manabu 山梨英和大学, 人間文化学部, 准教授 (90707861)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: フィジカル・コンピューティング / フィジカル・インタラクション / メディア表現教育 / ブロックプログラミングエディタ / プログラミング教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to support the practice of "media representation education" to learn the media design and information technology by constructing a mechanism of physical interaction. In order to implement physical interaction, it is necessary to program hardware control such as sensors that measure human motion and programming to generate and change audio/visual representation according to the value measured by sensors. It is difficult for beginners of programming to learn these in a short time. To solve this problem, we developed a block programming editor "Sketch Blocks" which can describe both hardware control programs and audio/visual representation programs. By using this editor, it is possible to integrally support the learner's production of media representation work.

Free Research Field

教育工学