Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor

This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.

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Main Author: Chan, Kelsey K.
Other Authors: Harold Abelson.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123010
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spelling mit-1721.1/1230102019-11-22T03:38:04Z Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor Chan, Kelsey K. Harold Abelson. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019 Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-114). An online community whose primary activity involves sharing personal creations is called an Online Community of Creators (OCOC). These communities provide a space where one user's work can serve as inspiration for others and where users can offer feedback to each other, thus fostering creativity and helping users learn and grow. I designed and implemented a stand-alone gallery where App Inventor programmers can showcase their projects and receive feedback on their work. The goals of this new gallery were (1) to encourage more users to share their projects and (2) to increase the discoverability of shared projects among the App Inventor community. Based on the user study results, the new gallery addresses many usability pain points that users faced in the old gallery. Users expressed that they are more likely to share projects and view projects using the new gallery. By continuing to improve the usability of the gallery user interface, we hope to encourage even more users to publish projects to the gallery and to explore projects created by other members of the App Inventor community. by Kelsey K. Chan. M. Eng. M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2019-11-22T00:02:03Z 2019-11-22T00:02:03Z 2019 2019 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123010 1127569167 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 114 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor
title Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor
title_full Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor
title_fullStr Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor
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title_short Building an online community of creators through MIT App Inventor
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topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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