Designing Tools that Allows Children in the Early Childhood to Program Robots

 

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Autors: Ramírez Benavides, Kryscia Daviana, López Herrera, Gustavo, Guerrero Blanco, Luis Alberto
Format: capítulo de libro
Data de publicació:2017
Descripció:This paper describes the design and evaluation process of two mobile programming assistance tools that allow children in the early childhood to develop programs and execute them using robots. The tools are called TITIBOTS and TITIBOTS Colab which incorporates collaboration. The tools have icon-based interfaces and integrate visual programming, robotics, and mobile devices as one tool. The main issues and lessons learned during the design process are described. The methodology used in this project was User-Centered Design (UCD) process. The tools were developed and evaluated applying participatory-design, experience prototyping, and usability testing. The final product are two simple, intuitive, and easy to use tools, for children between 4 and 6 years old. The results were promising: children liked the applications and were willing to continue using it to program robots for solving specific tasks.
Pais:Kérwá
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/75868
Accés en línia:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-58515-4_7
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/75868
Paraula clau:Interaction design
User-Centered Design
Early childhood education
Programming tool
Programming robots
372.358 Tecnología
User interfaces
Human computer interaction