Designing personal robots for education: Hardware, software, and curriculum

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 5-9

  Balch, Tucker ^a   Summet, Jay ^a   Blank, Doug ^b   Kumar, Deepak ^b   Guzdial, Mark ^c   O'Hara, Keith ^c   Walker, Daniel ^c   Sweat, Monica ^c   Gupta, Gaurav ^c   Tansley, Stewart ^d   Jackson, Jared ^d   Gupta, Mansi ^b   Muhammad, Marwa Nur ^b   Prashad, Shikha ^b   Eilbert, Natasha ^b   Gavin, Ashley ^b  

^a Georgia Tech University

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Georgia Tech

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Personal robot education

Indexed keywords

PERSONAL ROBOT EDUCATION; STUDENTS' COMPUTERS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; HARDWARE; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 42549086888     PISSN: 15361268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2008.29     Document Type: Article

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