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The work presented in this paper is part of PRIM project [8] which aims to enable naive users - people with no programming skills - to create human-machine interaction scenarios. This paper presents a literature review which objectives are to understand why learning computer programming and algorithms is such a complex activity, and how visual programing languages, learning tools, digital tools designed for non-developers and their features can inspire the design of a human-machine interaction scenarios authoring tool, in order to propose a series of recommendations for the design of a human-machine interaction scenarios authoring tool.
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Debloos, J., Jost, C., Archambault, D. (2024). Programming Learning Difficulties: How Can Naive Users Create Human-Machine Interaction Scenarios?. In: Miesenberger, K., Peňáz, P., Kobayashi, M. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14751. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62849-8_30
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