Explaining multi-threaded task scheduling using tangible user interfaces in higher educational contexts
Conference paper
De Raffaele, C., Smith, S. and Gemikonakli, O. 2017. Explaining multi-threaded task scheduling using tangible user interfaces in higher educational contexts. 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). Athens, Greece 25 - 28 Apr 2017 IEEE. pp. 1383-1390 https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7943028
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | Explaining multi-threaded task scheduling using tangible user interfaces in higher educational contexts |
Authors | De Raffaele, C., Smith, S. and Gemikonakli, O. |
Abstract | Endorsing the advantages of computer-based interaction within the educational domain, this study analysis the potential for tangible interactive technology to mitigate the challenges faced by higher educational institutes in explaining abstracted technical concepts. Implemented within a novel within the educational domain, this paper evaluates the efficacy of adopting a tangible user interface (TUI) to aid in the conceptual understanding of multi-threaded task scheduling and programming by undergraduate IT students. Making use of physical object representations, a description is provided for the distinctive development of a collaborative system that allows students to interact with and visualize the scheduling of multiple software threads onto a computer processes. The paper quantitatively studies the usefulness of the proposed TUI system with respect to traditional lectures by deploying the system within a university computing degree. Evaluation analysis of the obtained results highlight a significant improvement in the students' abilities to grasp the abstract and complex notions of multi-threading, thus validating the potential of the proposed study. |
Conference | 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) |
Page range | 1383-1390 |
Proceedings Title | Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) |
ISSN | 2165-9567 |
ISBN | |
Electronic | 9781509054671 |
Paperback | 9781509054688 |
Electronic | 9781509054664 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication dates | |
Online | 08 Jun 2017 |
Apr 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 19 Dec 2017 |
Accepted | 24 Jan 2017 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open |
Copyright Statement | © 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7943028 |
Web address (URL) of conference proceedings | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7936435/proceeding |
https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON39996.2017 | |
Language | English |
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