Speaker: José Juan Dominguez Veiga, MIT
 
Title: MIT App Inventor: Enabling Personal Mobile Computing.

Abstract
MIT App Inventor is a drag-and-drop visual programming tool for
designing and building fully functional mobile apps for Android. App
Inventor promotes a new era of personal mobile computing in which
people are empowered to design, create, and use personally meaningful
mobile technology solutions for their daily lives, in endlessly unique
situations. App Inventor's intuitive programming metaphor and
incremental development capabilities allow the developer to focus on
the logic for programming an app rather than the syntax of the coding
language, fostering digital literacy for all. Since it was moved from
Google to MIT, a number of improvements have been added, and research
projects are underway.
Based on a paper presented at PROMOTO http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2830