Description:

Children are often fascinated with robots and want to control (program) them. Currently, most programming environments are screen-based, requiring the use of either a mouse and keyboard or a touch screen. This project will investigate the use of physical coding blocks (tangibles) as an alternate approach to programming robots. The project will involve developing the programming environment and evaluating it with children.

Type:

Undergraduate

Outcome:

• Development of a tangible block-based programming system using the Osmo SDK
• Development of custom blocks to program a robot (Sphero and/or Nao robots)
• Evaluation of the system with school-aged children

Prerequisites

None

Specialisations

• Computer Systems Engineering
• Software Engineering

Categories

• Games & Education Aids 1
• Human Computer Interactions
• Robotics

Supervisor

• Craig Sutherland

Co-supervisor

• Nasser Giacaman

Team

• Joshua Fu
• Ryan Lim

Lab

Lab allocations have not been finalised