Paper Info
Title
Designing Tools that Allows Children in the Early Childhood to Program Robots.
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-58515-4_7
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
User interfaces and Human computer interaction,Interaction design,User-Centered Design,Early childhood education,Programming tool,Programming robots
Developmental psychology,Software engineering,Interaction design,Computer science,Usability,Visual programming language,Engineering design process,Artificial intelligence,Robot,User interface,Robotics,User-centered design
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10296
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kryscia Ramirez-Benavides111.41
Gustavo López Herrera22111.00
Luis A. Guerrero328539.45