Designing Personal Robots for Education: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum
Tucker R. Balch, Jay W. Summet, Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, Mark Guzdial, Keith J. O’Hara, Daniel B. Walker, Monica Sweat, Gaurav Gupta, Stewart Tansley, Jared Jackson, Mansi Gupta, Marwa Muhammad, Shikha Prashad, Natasha Eilbert, Ashley Gavin · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 2008
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.