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Facilitators First: Building a Tool With Facilitators to Foster a More Collaborative Makerspace Community Through Movement Traces

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Research indicates that makerspaces equip students with the practical skills needed to build their own projects and thrive in the twenty-first-century workforce. While the appeal of makerspaces lies in their spirit of tinkering and community-driven ethos, these same attributes make it difficult to monitor and facilitate learning. Makerspaces also attract students from diverse backgrounds and skills, further challenging facilitators to accommodate the needs of each student and their self-directed projects. We propose a dashboard interface that visualizes Kinect sensor data to aid facilitators in monitoring student collaboration. The tool was designed with an iterative and participatory approach. Five facilitators were involved at each phase of the design process, from need-finding to prototyping to implementation and evaluation. Insights derived from interviews were used to inform the design decisions of the final interface. The final evaluation suggests that the use of normalized summary scores and an interactive network graph can successfully support facilitators in tasks related to improving collaboration. Moreover, the use of a red-green color scheme and the inclusion of student photos improved the usability for facilitators, but issues of trustworthiness need to be further examined.

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Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life. This concept is also termed as psychosocial competency. The subject varies greatly depending on social norms and community expectations but skills that function for well-being and aid individuals to develop into active and productive members of their communities are considered as life skills.
Soft skills
Soft skills, also known as power skills, common skills, essential skills, or core skills, are skills applicable to all professions. These include critical thinking, problem solving, public speaking, professional writing, teamwork, digital literacy, leadership, professional attitude, work ethic, career management and intercultural fluency. This is in contrast to hard skills, which are specific to individual professions. The word "skill" highlights the practical function.
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L’interface utilisateur est un dispositif matériel ou logiciel qui permet à un usager d'interagir avec un produit informatique. C'est une interface informatique qui coordonne les interactions homme-machine, en permettant à l'usager humain de contrôler le produit et d'échanger des informations avec le produit. Parmi les exemples d’interface utilisateur figurent les aspects interactifs des systèmes d’exploitation informatiques, des logiciels informatiques, des smartphones et, dans le domaine du design industriel, les commandes des opérateurs de machines lourdes et les commandes de processus.
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