A visual robot-programming environment for multidisciplinary education

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 th...

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Published in:2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation pp. 445 - 452
Main Authors: Cross, Jennifer, Bartley, Christopher, Hamner, Emily, Nourbakhsh, Illah
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.05.2013
Subjects:
Materials
Programming environments
Robot sensing systems
Visualization
ISBN:1467356417, 9781467356411
ISSN:1050-4729
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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 compare and contrast the programming environment with other popular visual programming environments, namely Scratch, Alice and LEGO NXT-G.
AbstractList 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 compare and contrast the programming environment with other popular visual programming environments, namely Scratch, Alice and LEGO NXT-G.
Author Nourbakhsh, Illah
Cross, Jennifer
Bartley, Christopher
Hamner, Emily
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