• DocumentCode
    1127542
  • Title

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

  • Author

    Balch, Tucker ; Summet, J. ; Blank, D. ; Kumar, Dinesh ; Guzdial, M. ; O´Hara, Kieron ; Walker, David ; Sweat, M. ; Gupta, Chaitali ; Tansley, S. ; Jackson, Julie ; Gupta, Mansi ; Muhammad, M.N. ; Prashad, S. ; Eilbert, N. ; Gavin, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Georgia Tech Univ., Atlanta
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    5
  • Lastpage
    9
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; computer science education; robots; Bryn Mawr College; Computer Science 1 curriculum; Georgia Tech; educational robots; personal robots; Computer science; Computer science education; Educational robots; Hardware; Parallel robots; Programming profession; Robot control; Robot programming; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; personal robot education;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pervasive Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1268
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPRV.2008.29
  • Filename
    4487080