Coding with Colors: Children’s Errors Committed While Programming Robotito for the First Time

Bakala, Ewelina - Pires, Ana Cristina - da Luz, Mariana - Pascale, Maria - Tejera, Gonzalo - Hourcade, Juan Pablo

Resumen:

Robotito is an educational robot developed in Uruguay to stimulate the development of computational thinking in young children. We conducted an exploratory study to detect difficulties that emerge during the first approximation of preschool children to Robotito (Study 1). Based on the lessons learned, we implemented improvements in robot design and the structure of the introductory activities with Robotito and conducted a pilot study (Study 2) to evaluate them. This poster presents observed programming errors, lessons learned, and future works.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2023
Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Program (PRR), IAPMEI / ANI / FCT
Child-robot interaction
Preschoolers
Educational robotics
Ciencias Naturales y Exactas
Ciencias de la Computación e Información
Ciencias de la Computación
Ingeniería y Tecnología
Ingeniería Eléctrica, Ingeniería Electrónica e Ingeniería de la Información
Control Automático y Robótica
Inglés
Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
REDI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/3662
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_50
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Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional. (CC BY-NC-ND)
Resumen:
Sumario:Robotito is an educational robot developed in Uruguay to stimulate the development of computational thinking in young children. We conducted an exploratory study to detect difficulties that emerge during the first approximation of preschool children to Robotito (Study 1). Based on the lessons learned, we implemented improvements in robot design and the structure of the introductory activities with Robotito and conducted a pilot study (Study 2) to evaluate them. This poster presents observed programming errors, lessons learned, and future works.