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End-User Development for the Wolly Robot

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2019)

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In this paper we describe the co-design and implementation of an educational robot called Wolly. We iteratively involved kids as co-designers helping us in shaping form and behavior of the robot, as well as the set of commands to control its actions and behavior.

We would like to thank the 4A class of Falletti Primary School, Turin.

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    https://developers.google.com/blockly/.

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    https://scratch.mit.edu/.

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    The smartphone shows the robot’s face and its expressions, while the emotion recognition functionality is based on Affectiva software.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, 10149, Turin, Italy

    Fabiana Vernero, Claudio Mattutino & Cristina Gena

  2. School of ICT, University of Turin, 10124, Turin, Italy

    Gianluca Bova, Davide Cellie, Cristina Gioia, Fabiana Vernero & Cristina Gena

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  1. University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

    Alessio Malizia

  2. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Stefano Valtolina

  3. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Anders Morch

  4. Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

    Alan Serrano

  5. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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Bova, G., Cellie, D., Gioia, C., Vernero, F., Mattutino, C., Gena, C. (2019). End-User Development for the Wolly Robot. In: Malizia, A., Valtolina, S., Morch, A., Serrano, A., Stratton, A. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11553. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_19

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