Blockly Developer Summit 2019: Realtime Collaboration with Blockly-Experiences with MIT App Inventor

A Google TechTalk, 2019/10/10, presented by Evan Patton. ABSTRACT: What does real time collaboration mean in a block based environment? Evan talks through the general approaches for building real time collaboration, the user trade offs for different interaction models, and the results of UX studies with MIT App Inventor. Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yq9_Ay4a0paFgpVQR1pJN5_wzfUtEaBW/view More about the Summit: https://sites.google.com/corp/view/blockly-user-summit-2019/agenda About the speaker: Evan is the Lead Developer on the App Inventor project. His aim is to help App Inventor users realize the full potential of their app ideas through the development of new components and features to aid in collaboration, rich data collection and visualization, and efficiency. During his time as a graduate student, Evan consulted on the PUNYA project to expand App Inventor capabilities for humanitarian causes, and he has consulted for a number of companies deploying Android and iOS applications. Evan completed his Ph.D. on optimizing reasoning software power consumption on smartphones at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in June 2016 prior to joining the App Inventor team. He also holds a M.S. in Cognitive Science and B.S. in Computer Science & Psychology from RPI.