Mind the Gap

Prize: Prizes / Medals / Awards

Description

Within the Code'n'stitch Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG) FEMtech project, the learning app Pocket Code was extended by the possibility to program an embroidery machine. This new approach to programming and embroidery offers especially teenage girls new access to the IT world and inspires them for technology. The project made girls the focus of the development and, as the final step, we were able to launch the specially developed app "Embroidery Designer" on the market as a free and also advertising-free app.

Degree of recognitionLocal
Granting OrganisationsGraz University of Technology (90000), Austria

Austrian Fields of Study 2012 (6-stellig)

  • 102013 Human-computer interaction
  • 102022 Software development

Keywords

  • gender
  • coding
  • embroidery
  • Code'n'Stitch