NDLI: Hi-Lo tech games: crafting, coding and collaboration of augmented board games by high school youth

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Kafai, Yasmin Vasudevan, Veena
Abstract	Most research on game making activities for learning has focused on programming screen-based designs. Only recently has research begun to include the design of tangible interfaces; connecting on-screen programming with hands-on crafting. In this paper, we examine the potential of a workshop that combines the high and low of technology with game design in which teams of high school youth crafted, coded and collaborated on their own augmented board games to highlight intersections between learning programming and making, and creating across digital and tangible modalities. We focused our analysis of students' projects, interactions, and reflections on how young designers conceptualized the integration of screen and board game elements, realized computational concepts and practices in their board game designs and augmentations, and reflected on their game design experience connecting crafting and coding. In the discussion, we review how the expansion of game making activities can create new opportunities for interaction design and research.
Starting Page	130
Ending Page	139
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450335904
DOI	10.1145/2771839.2771853
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2015-06-21
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Game design Board games Scratch Maker activities Makey makey
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Hi-Lo tech games: crafting, coding and collaboration of augmented board games by high school youth