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Multimodal programming environment for kids: a "thought bubble" interface for the Pleo robotic character

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Boston, MA, USA

SESSION: Spotlight on work in progress session 2 table of contents

Pages 4483-4488

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-247-4

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Kimiko Ryokai	University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Michael Jongseon Lee	University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Jonathan Micah Breitbart	University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We introduce a mixed physical and digital programming environment for children to control robotic characters. We present our design rationale, our initial prototype, report the results from our initial evaluation, and discuss ongoing work.

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