End-user experiences of visual and textual programming environments for Arduino

Booth, T. and Stumpf, S. (2013) End-user experiences of visual and textual programming environments for Arduino. In: Dittrich, Y., Burnett, M., Mørch, A. and Redmiles, D. (eds.) End-User Development: 4th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 10-13, 2013. Proceedings. Series: Lecture notes in computer science (7897). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25-39. ISBN 9783642387050 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_4)

Abstract

Arduino is an open source electronics platform aimed at hobbyists, artists, and other people who want to make things but do not necessarily have a background in electronics or programming. We report the results of an exploratory empirical study that investigated the potential for a visual programming environment to provide benefits with respect to efficacy and user experience to end-user programmers of Arduino as an alternative to traditional text-based coding. We also investigated learning barriers that participants encountered in order to inform future programming environment design. Our study provides a first step in exploring end-user programming environments for open source electronics platforms.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Stumpf, Dr Simone
• Authors: Booth, T., and Stumpf, S.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: Springer
• ISBN: 9783642387050