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Interface Design Proposal of Card-Type Programming Tool

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2016)

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We developed a card-type programming tool “Pro-Tan” as an education tool for beginners in programming. This tool was designed to be usable without any instruction on its operations. In the experiment, we did not tell the users how to use any of the tools. The subjects were instructed to create a program by themselves. We found problems of Pro-Tan’s design in the experiment. In this paper, we report the system configuration of Pro-Tan and problem of Pro-Tan’s design.

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  1. Department of Intelligent System Design Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama, Japan

    Naoki Tetsumura, Toru Oshima, Ken’ichi Koyanagi, Hiroyuki Masuta & Tatsuo Motoyoshi

  2. Unit of Design, Kyoto University, 1 Yoshidanakaadachicho, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan

    Hiroshi Kawakami

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Tetsumura, N., Oshima, T., Koyanagi, K., Masuta, H., Motoyoshi, T., Kawakami, H. (2016). Interface Design Proposal of Card-Type Programming Tool. In: Kubota, N., Kiguchi, K., Liu, H., Obo, T. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9835. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43518-3_7

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