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Proposal of “micro:bit PC” Powered by Numeric Key Programming for both Visually Impaired and Sighted Elementary School Students

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP-AAATE 2022)

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In the informational society, elementary school students are expected to learn programming. The BBC micro:bit, which has many sensors, is employed as one of the programming materials. However, MakeCode, which is a block programming editor of the micro:bit, is not accessible for visually impaired yet. Regarding this problem, we have proposed a new and easy programming environment for a mobile robot kit involving the micro:bit. The environment does not require any PC or tablet so visually impaired students can use it. Therefore, visually impaired students were able to obtain the programming skill within 15 min at maximum from their first touch of the robot. In this paper, we explain on the details of the command set of our robot and how to use the sensors of the micro:bit with our programming environment for the robot kit.

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  1. Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 3-30-1, Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken, 811-0295, Japan

    Yoshihiko Kimuro, Taishi Takiuchi, Ken’ichi Furusato & Takafumi Ienaga

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  1. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Kouroupetroglou

  3. European University Cyprus, Engomi, Cyprus

    Katerina Mavrou

  4. University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Roberto Manduchi

  5. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Mario Covarrubias Rodriguez

  6. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penáz

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Kimuro, Y., Takiuchi, T., Furusato, K., Ienaga, T. (2022). Proposal of “micro:bit PC” Powered by Numeric Key Programming for both Visually Impaired and Sighted Elementary School Students. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G., Mavrou, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Penáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP-AAATE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08648-9_41

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