Abstract

DELGADO SILVA, César Iván; SANDOVAL ALCOCER, Juan Pablo  and  ARTEAGA SABJA, Wendoline. Blockly Voice: a voice-guided programming environment. RevActaNova. [online]. 2019, vol.9, n.1, pp.115-129. ISSN 1683-0789.

Nowadays, solving issues with a computer has become an important activity, programming is useful not only for engineering careers, but also for developing skills like problem resolutions and critical thinking. Unfortunately, people with hand related disabilities have different challenges while learning programming. Mainly because educational programming tools require interactions with the keyword or mouse. In this paper, we propose "Blockly Voice" a voice guide programing environment to help people to implement small programs without the need to physically interact with the computer. We perform an explorative and qualitative study involving ten highschool students (one with hand disabilities) solving small programming exercises. As a result, participants found our tool as practical and beneficial to implement programs.

Keywords : Software tools; speech recognition; human computer interaction.

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