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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Challenges to grounding in human-robot interaction
We report a study of a human-robot system composed of a science team (located in Pittsburgh), an engineering team (located in Chile), and a robot (located in Chile). We performed ...
Kristen Stubbs, Pamela J. Hinds, David Wettergreen
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The Impact of Pair Programming on Student Performance, Perception and Persistence
This study examined the effectiveness of pair programming in four lecture sections of a large introductory programming course. We were particularly interested in assessing how the...
Charlie McDowell, Linda L. Werner, Heather E. Bull...
IWC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Robot ethics? Not yet: A reflection on Whitby's "Sometimes it's hard to be a robot"
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
Harold W. Thimbleby
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
On the computational power of oblivious robots: forming a series of geometric patterns
We study the computational power of a distributed system consisting of simple autonomous robots moving on the plane. The robots are endowed with visual perception but do not have ...
Shantanu Das, Paola Flocchini, Nicola Santoro, Mas...
FECS
2010
146views Education» more  FECS 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Teaching Robotics to Freshman Students
This paper describes the experience of teaching robotics at the freshman level, from the conception of the project through the offering of a computer science seminar in robotics, h...
Pedro Diaz-Gomez, Johnny Carroll