Inspiring blind high school students to pursue computer science with instant messaging chatbots

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 449-453

  Bigham, Jeffrey P ^a   Aller, Maxwell B ^a   Brudvik, Jeremy T ^a   Leung, Jessica O ^a   Yazzolino, Lindsay A ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blind students; Chatbots

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTERS; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; LINGUISTICS; MESSAGE PASSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACCESSIBILITY; BLIND STUDENTS; CHATBOTS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; INSTANT MESSAGING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

TEACHING;

EID: 57449115560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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