El diseño y testeo de aplicaciones didácticas para dispositivos móviles: el Metacubo como caso de ejemplo de investigación aplicada.
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investigación aplicada, juegos matemáticos para tablets, testeo de aplicaciones con niños, concepto Metacubo,Resumen
En este artículo pretendemos exponer un caso de diseño de un proceso de transformación conceptual y de investigación aplicada. Se ha pasado del diseño y discusión de concepto Metacubo a su conversión en un software cuyos resultados pueden aplicarse a la gestión de la información en muchos campos y que de hecho ya ha encontrado una de sus conversiones o mutaciones en aplicaciones y juegos didácticos para tablets como el Zong-Ji Kids, que estimulan el trabajo mental en niños de edades comprendidas entre los 6 y los 9 años. El juego se sometió en 2012 a un proceso de testeo observacional en laboratorio a 80 niños de edades comprendidas entre los 5 y los 13 años.
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