[Sugar-devel] suggestions regarding idea and further guidance

[paul hunter]

Thanks for the feedback Mr. Walter,

and yeah, the Idea is to bridge the programmatic way of syntax writing and
trading them with hand/speech commands by the children.

Because we know it'll be absurd to guide children to comprehend with a
programming languages' syntax to solve problems.

An example of such task is a game in which a "bunny" needs to hop over
the tiles with left to right tracks to get it's carrot and the
children are told to give commands to the screen either from their
hands (fingers) or though speech that how many hops the bunny should
take or where it should turn (left/right) in order to get to his
carrot.

furthermore, we can use this to power other activities which doesn't
require much tactical thinking like -

An example of it can be helping the children to learn different
animals sounds and their speech:
In which the screen may prompt an animal which will make a sound and
the child will imitate the sound of the animal if the sound matches
then the screen moves to another animal else the process repeats, eg:
If the dog appears then the expected sound is “bark”.

not only this but we can also use this to track the child's actions
and check symptoms of fatigue.

this may not be an exercise but an useful feature in enhance the user
experience and make the child more comfortable while he/she is
interacting with our SugarLab activities

while the child is engaged in the activity we can detect various
features in the child’s face or other bodily features like –
To detect if they are not getting tired/sleepy if so, then gradually
shift the environment to comfortable interface.
To detect if the child is not overusing the software and if it not
harming their health by detecting features in the eyes like redness
etc.

looking forward for yours and the community's valuable suggestions.
warm regards
Vivek

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 5:32 PM Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 3:16 PM paul hunter <choudhary.vivek98 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> hi,
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>> I have a following idea which i discussed with Mr. Walter, with his recommendation I post it here kindly pose your opinions.
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>> Ideology: Introducing young students to the problem solving experience visually though interactive simulations and games.
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>> Methodology: The workflow of this application can be distributed in the following manner:
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>> Initially the plan is to introduce student to the basic concepts of programmatic expressions through interactive games, an example of this can be found in the doodle released by Google at their 50th Anniversary.
>> The only difference is the ability to carry out the process, we could use hand expressions for kids.
>> Gradually the problem statements can be increased as per the education level of the child.
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>> Outcome: Children will be more aware and mindful while solving their day to day problems in a better way.
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> I guess my only doubt is why you think hand expressions are a better way to interact with the programming language? Interesting hypothesis in any case.
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>> Though I believe that this task may be challenging to carry out, but with the guidance of appropriate mentors and with full devotion I believe we can carry this out.
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>> Looking forward for your intuitive suggestions and further guidance.
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>> Regards
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>> Vivek
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