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Block-Based Development of Mobile Learning Experiences for the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things enables experts of given domains to create smart user experiences for interacting with the environment. However, development of such experiences requires strong programming skills, which are challenging to develop for non-technical users. This paper presents several extensions...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6960931/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31835869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19245467 |
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author | Ruiz-Rube, Iván Mota, José Miguel Person, Tatiana Corral, José María Rodríguez Dodero, Juan Manuel |
author_facet | Ruiz-Rube, Iván Mota, José Miguel Person, Tatiana Corral, José María Rodríguez Dodero, Juan Manuel |
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description | The Internet of Things enables experts of given domains to create smart user experiences for interacting with the environment. However, development of such experiences requires strong programming skills, which are challenging to develop for non-technical users. This paper presents several extensions to the block-based programming language used in App Inventor to make the creation of mobile apps for smart learning experiences less challenging. Such apps are used to process and graphically represent data streams from sensors by applying map-reduce operations. A workshop with students without previous experience with Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile app programming was conducted to evaluate the propositions. As a result, students were able to create small IoT apps that ingest, process and visually represent data in a simpler form as using App Inventor’s standard features. Besides, an experimental study was carried out in a mobile app development course with academics of diverse disciplines. Results showed it was faster and easier for novice programmers to develop the proposed app using new stream processing blocks. |
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spelling | pubmed-69609312020-01-24 Block-Based Development of Mobile Learning Experiences for the Internet of Things Ruiz-Rube, Iván Mota, José Miguel Person, Tatiana Corral, José María Rodríguez Dodero, Juan Manuel Sensors (Basel) Article The Internet of Things enables experts of given domains to create smart user experiences for interacting with the environment. However, development of such experiences requires strong programming skills, which are challenging to develop for non-technical users. This paper presents several extensions to the block-based programming language used in App Inventor to make the creation of mobile apps for smart learning experiences less challenging. Such apps are used to process and graphically represent data streams from sensors by applying map-reduce operations. A workshop with students without previous experience with Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile app programming was conducted to evaluate the propositions. As a result, students were able to create small IoT apps that ingest, process and visually represent data in a simpler form as using App Inventor’s standard features. Besides, an experimental study was carried out in a mobile app development course with academics of diverse disciplines. Results showed it was faster and easier for novice programmers to develop the proposed app using new stream processing blocks. MDPI 2019-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6960931/ /pubmed/31835869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19245467 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ruiz-Rube, Iván Mota, José Miguel Person, Tatiana Corral, José María Rodríguez Dodero, Juan Manuel Block-Based Development of Mobile Learning Experiences for the Internet of Things |
title | Block-Based Development of Mobile Learning Experiences for the Internet of Things |
title_full | Block-Based Development of Mobile Learning Experiences for the Internet of Things |
title_fullStr | Block-Based Development of Mobile Learning Experiences for the Internet of Things |
title_full_unstemmed | Block-Based Development of Mobile Learning Experiences for the Internet of Things |
title_short | Block-Based Development of Mobile Learning Experiences for the Internet of Things |
title_sort | block-based development of mobile learning experiences for the internet of things |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6960931/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31835869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19245467 |
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