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Thymio II, a robot that grows wiser with children

Riedo, Fanny  
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Chevalier, Morgane Solène Denise  
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Magnenat, Stéphane  
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2013
Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2013 IEEE Workshop on
The 2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)

Thymio II is a small robot developed for education. It aims at offering a wide public the possibility to understand the basics of robotics and programming. To achieve this, it aims at being appealing to a large age range and serve as a medium for several types of activities. In this study, we tested it in five different workshops of the EPFL Robotics Festival with various activities. The workshops target different age groups and the participants can control the robot via different means: built- in buttons, graphical programming and text programming. At the end of the activities, participants were asked to fill a short survey to give their impressions about the robot, their appreciation of the tasks and their motivations to take part. We could show through this feedback that ThymioII appeals to young children as much as to teenagers, to both girls and boys, and allows them to have fun and learn new things.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ARSO.2013.6705527
Author(s)
Riedo, Fanny  
Chevalier, Morgane Solène Denise  
Magnenat, Stéphane  
Mondada, Francesco  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2013 IEEE Workshop on
Start page

187

End page

193

Subjects

Robots for education

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Thymio II

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programming interfaces

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EPFL

EPFL units
LSRO  
NCCR-ROBOTICS  
AVP-E-LEARN  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
The 2013 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO)

Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

November 7-9, 2013

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April 14, 2014
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/102733
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