Designing Personal Robots for Education: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum

An exciting new initiative at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College is using personal robots both to motivate students and to serve as the primary programming platform for the Computer Science 1 curriculum. Here, the authors introduce the initiative and outline plans for the future.

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Published inIEEE pervasive computing Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 5 - 9
Main Authors Balch, T., Summet, J., Blank, D., Kumar, D., Guzdial, M., O'Hara, K., Walker, D., Sweat, M., Gupta, C., Tansley, S., Jackson, J., Mansi Gupta, Muhammad, M.N., Prashad, S., Eilbert, N., Gavin, A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.04.2008
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Computer programs
Computer science
Computer science education
Education
Educational robots
Hardware
Parallel robots
personal robot education
Platforms
Programming
Programming profession
Robot control
Robot programming
Robot sensing systems
Robot vision systems
Robots
Software
Students
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Summary:An exciting new initiative at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College is using personal robots both to motivate students and to serve as the primary programming platform for the Computer Science 1 curriculum. Here, the authors introduce the initiative and outline plans for the future.
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ISSN:1536-1268
1558-2590
DOI:10.1109/MPRV.2008.29