Improved Mobile Robot Programming Performance through Real-time Program Assessment
Rémy Siegfried, Severin Klinger, Markus H. Groß, Robert W. Sumner, Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat · 2017
The strong interest children show for mobile robots makes these devices potentially powerful to teach programming. Moreover, the tangibility of physical objects and the sociability of interacting with them are added benefits. A key skill that novices in programming have to acquire is the ability to mentally trace program execution. However, because of their embodied and real-time nature, robots make the mental tracing of program execution difficult.