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Abstract

MIT App Inventor has enabled middle school students to learn computing while creating their own apps—including apps that serve community needs. However, few resources exist for building apps that gather and share data. There is a need for new tools and an instructional materials for students to build data-enabled, community-focused apps. We developed an extension for App Inventor, called AppVis, which allows app-makers to publish and retrieve data from iSENSE, our existing web-based collaborative data visualization platform. We used AppVis and supporting instructional materials in two one-week summer camps attended by a total of 33 middle school students. Based on student interview data and analysis of their final apps, our approach was broadly accessible to a diverse population of students. Students were motivated to build apps that could be used by their own communities. This thesis presents the design of AppVis and results from students' work in summer camps.

Details

Title
AppVis: Enabling data-rich apps in app inventor
Author
Harunani, Farzeen
Publication year
2016
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
ISBN
978-1-369-59831-5
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1870624252
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.