My World, My Device, My Program. Simposium on End-User Development

Wednesday 27

9:00h to 10:30h: Programming Ubiquitous Computing Environments. Keynote Speaker: Albrecht Schmidt, a professor of Human-Computer Interaction at University of Stuttgart. His primary research interest is Human-Computer Interaction beyond the desktop. Schmidt received his PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University in the UK.

Computing becomes a part of our everyday environment. Interaction in the “real world” is more and more determined by ubiquitous computing systems that are tailored to fit a specific environment. These systems can only be created with strong domain knowledge. End users may be the right group to develop or at least tailor such systems.

We show two examples of how domain expert can program systems: one looks at how to transfer programming by demonstration to ubicomp scenarios and the other on how to use examples as recipes for a new development. In the outlook we extrapolate from current practices of sharing videos to a future where multimodal and sensor-rich examples can be continuously recorded and may become the basis for new approaches for a truly user-centered development of cyber-physical systems.

Wednesday 27

16:00h to 20:00h: At A, B C, D, LAB and Auditorio spaces: Playground Workshops.

• Workshop Hands-on actionable mashups [+info and registrations]
• Workshop Spatial Awareness in Mobile Devices to Compose Data Source: a Utilization Study [+info and registrations]
• Workshop Exploring End-User Programming of Interactive Spaces [+info and registrations]
• Workshop Searching in a Playful Manner [+info and registrations]
• Workshop Creating Game-Like Content in Android Devices: The Mokap Hackaton [+info and registrations]
• Workshop A Platform for Creating Digital Educational Games as Combinations of Archetypical Games [+info and registrations]

Friday 29

12:00h to 13:00h: Hardware opensource and education. Keynote Speaker: David Cuartielles, a MSC Telecommunications engineer and one of the co-founders of the open source platform Arduino. Currently, he leads the Prototyping Laboratory at K3 at Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication.

"Arduino is a free, opensource hardware platform that can be reprogrammed with a piece of opensource software. Software that reprograms hardware allows people to transform the way they understand and interact with the world because electronics are omnipresent in our everyday activities. Elevators run with microcontrollers, in an average car there are seventy microcontrollers and even a microwave oven has microcontrollers.

The goal of Arduino is to empower people other than engineers to understand interaction paradigms such as physical, tangible and ubiquitous computing and to create their own interactive artifacts with digital electronics. Eventually, it democratizes learning by practical experimentation so that learners discover how to be independent, how to use things by themselves, how to exploit those things to build interactive sys- tems by themselves and how to be critically demanding about technology.

In this talk, I will introduce the feature that makes a free hardware platform such as Arduino a powerful learning tool that foster creativity and I will talk about a vision for the computing education for the 21st century: accessible and pleasant approaches to teach kids how to reprogram the surrounding environment. To this end, I will share experiences and insights gathered from project-based learning experiments with Arduino in secondary schools." By David Cuartielles