Ruru: A spatial and interactive visual programming language for novice robot programming

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 25-32

  Diprose, James P ^a   MacDonald, Bruce A ^a   Hosking, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

novice programmer; robotics; visual language

Indexed keywords

NOVICE PROGRAMMER; REAL TIME; ROBOT PLATFORM; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; USER FRIENDLINESS; VISUAL LANGUAGE; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 82855167252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2011.6070374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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