A Visual Robot-Programming Environment for Multidisciplinary Education
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 445 - 452, May, 2013
Abstract
Arts & Bots is an educational program that aims to broaden diversity and participation in technology by integrating arts and crafts with robotics. Arts & Bots is a flexible program that can be integrated into in-school and out- of-school programs in many subject areas. This paper describes the visual programming environment developed for Arts & Bots and its goals of low barriers to entry, classroom compatibility, supporting student acquisition of computational thinking skills, and enabling complex robot behaviors. The authors also com- pare and contrast the programming environment with other popular visual programming environments, namely Scratch, Alice and LEGO NXT-G.
BibTeX
@conference{Cross-2013-7723,author = {Jennifer Cross and Christopher Bartley and Emily Hamner and Illah Nourbakhsh},
title = {A Visual Robot-Programming Environment for Multidisciplinary Education},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {2013},
month = {May},
pages = {445 - 452},
}
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