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HCI with Chocolate: Introducing HCI Concepts to Brazilian Girls in Elementary School

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Human Computer Interaction (CLIHC 2013)

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In order to attract women to the area of computing there are several initiatives in the Brazilian context. The project named Meninas Digitais (Digital Girls) is one of them.In this paper we discuss one experiment carried out in the context of this project. A Computer Science Unplugged activity (The Chocolate Factory) was performed in a Brazilian state school. The activity was about HCI design and was done with nine teenagers. Most of these girls do not have a computer, so they rarely use one. The experiment was their first contact with a topic related to concepts of HCI design, and the girls succeeded in the activity giving interesting solutions for the problem situations presented. The experiment showed that it is possible to introduce some activities to elementary school students so as to present HCI and promote courses in the area of Computing.

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  1. Instituto de Computação (IC), Laboratório de Ambientes Virtuais Interativos (LAVI), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), Cuiabá, MT, 78050-970, Brazil

    Cristiano Maciel

  2. Departamento de Informática (DAINF) Curitiba, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), PR, 80230-901, Brazil

    Sílvia Amélia Bim

  3. Colegiado de Ciência da Computação, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE), campus de Cascavel, PR, 85819-110, Brazil

    Clodis Boscarioli

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  1. Facultad de Ingeniería Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Departamento de Sistemas, Universidad del Cauca, FIET-Sector Tulcan, Popayán, Colombia

    César Collazos

  2. Federal University of Ceará, Campus da UFC em Quixadá, Av. José de Freitas Queiroz, 5003 - Cedro Novo, CEP 63900-000, Quixadá, CE, Brazil

    Andréia Liborio

  3. Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Av. Brasil 2241, 4059, Casilla, Valparaíso, Chile

    Cristian Rusu

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Maciel, C., Bim, S.A., Boscarioli, C. (2013). HCI with Chocolate: Introducing HCI Concepts to Brazilian Girls in Elementary School. In: Collazos, C., Liborio, A., Rusu, C. (eds) Human Computer Interaction. CLIHC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03068-5_16

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