Blinky Blocks: A physical ensemble programming platform

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1111-1116

  Kirby, Brian ^a   Ashley Rollman, Michael ^a   Goldstein, Seth Copen ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development tools; Programming environments; Robots; Tangible UI

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EXISTING SYSTEMS; HARDWARE DESIGN; PROGRAMMABLE MATTER; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; TANGIBLE UI;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79957947738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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