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One of our main goals is for kids to understand how to use the features of Looking Glass, such as drag-and-drop, play and remix. However, even if they can successfully create a basic animation,...
- Aug 10, 2012
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After finishing up user studies for the Mentoring rule-writing API, I've been working on writing the paper. The two main parts I have been struggling with are framing the study/contribution and the...
- Sep 06, 2012
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While I worked a bit on data analysis last week, by labeling and categorizing the structure of the rules mentors wrote, this week, Caitlin and I got into the meat of the quality of suggestions and...
- Sep 13, 2012
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When to Recommend Mentor Suggestions
Last night Kyle and I submitted our papers to CHI (yayyy)! My paper was on the study I ran mostly in July/August where we had expert programmers make suggestions on how Looking Glass...
- Sep 20, 2012
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After spending so much time working with the results of our exploratory rules study, I was pretty excited to apply some of what we found to the design of the mentoring system and interface. Patrick...
- Sep 27, 2012
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This week I have been trying to really sketch out what the mentoring interface looks like, specifically so that mentors can efficiently and productively collaborate on suggestions and rules. I did...
- Oct 04, 2012
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This week I have been trying to really sketch out what the mentoring interface looks like, specifically so that mentors can efficiently and productively collaborate on suggestions and rules. I did...
- Oct 04, 2012
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After presenting preliminary designs last week, I was struggling with the fact that this process can get kind of long and unweildy. While mentors will be domain experts in programming, if they...
- Oct 11, 2012
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This week I started turning my drawings into what Looking Glass would look like with the designs, since this sometimes helps me figure out whether pieces of the design are realistic. I also started...
- Oct 20, 2012
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This week I've been working on implementing the design for mentors to view and create suggestions. I started off working on the "Select a World" view, where mentors choose one if their student's...
- Nov 02, 2012
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Michelle Ichinco
Michelle is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis, working on a way for independent learners to get feedback from expert programmers without having to know an...
- Joined Jun 15, 2012
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