Teachers’ feedback on the end-user development of tangible systems

Abstract

This paper presents an approach for involving the teacher as end-users in the development of tangible systems for the classroom. The approach makes use of a series of building blocks, a web tool to visually specify and generate XML files, as well as a piece of software automatically generating running applications from these specification files on a tangible tabletop. In October 2016, we have organised a workshop where 37 teachers created new tangible learning activities with the provided tools. In this paper we present the results from a questionnaire we distributed to these teachers, focussing on the usability of the web platform and the utility of the tools for their classroom.