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Educational Robots Driven by Tangible Programming Languages: A Review on the Field

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This paper presents a comprehensive literature review on tangible programming languages which are designed to program real robots and robotic mechanisms. Tangible programming interfaces appear to be more accessible to novice programmers and possibly reduce the age threshold for participation, making this way robot programming an educational toy even for preschool and elementary students. Moreover, this paper makes a short examination on the resent research findings on the field of tangible robot programming and argues that the combination of tangible programming and robot construction may offer unique opportunities for educational robotics.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Theodosios Sapounidis & Stavros Demetriadis

  2. Department of Philosophy and Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Theodosios Sapounidis

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  1. European Lab for Educational Technology , Sparta, Greece

    Dimitris Alimisis

  2. Department of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

    Michele Moro

  3. Department of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Padova , Padova, Italy

    Emanuele Menegatti

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Sapounidis, T., Demetriadis, S. (2017). Educational Robots Driven by Tangible Programming Languages: A Review on the Field. In: Alimisis, D., Moro, M., Menegatti, E. (eds) Educational Robotics in the Makers Era. Edurobotics 2016 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 560. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55553-9_16

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