E-DUB-A: A Tangible Educational Resource Editor in Inclusive Classes

Abstract

Using tangible interfaces for educational purposes presents considerable advantages and can provide an increase in student engagement and motivation, and showed particularly suitable in inclusive education. One of the main problems encountered in the use of tangible tabletop in the educational environment is the lack of software for programming and use that meets educational needs and is easy to use, especially for teachers who don't master programming logic. This work presents an editor of pedagogical activities developed for tangible tabletop to teachers develop pedagogical activities in inclusive context, intuitively and easily. The new editor was designed from a research with a group of undergraduate education course students, which used an available editor and evaluated its usability. After that, was carried out the new editor requirements elicitation, with the modeling and implementation of the same one. A new group of students of the same course used the new developed editor (E-dub-a) and evaluated its usability.