BEESM, a block-based educational programming tool for end users

Seraj, Mazyar; Autexier, Serge; Janssen, Jan

doi:10.1145/3240167.3240239

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“…Similar approaches targeted at robot-agnosticism have been proposed in professional [31], [43] and educational tools [14], [44]. However, block-based programming environments often limit the visualization of all graphical elements composing a program into a single view.…”

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confidence: 97%

Towards a Modular and Distributed End-User Development Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

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In an effort towards the democratization of Robotics, this article presents a novel End-User Development framework called Robot Interfaces From Zero Experience (RIZE). The framework provides a set of useful software tools for the creation of robot-oriented software architectures and programming interfaces, as well as the modeling and execution of robot behaviors, with a specific emphasis on social behaviors. Programming interfaces built on top of RIZE enable professionals with different backgrounds and interests to design, adapt, and scale-up robotics applications. As an example of a programming interface, we present Open RIZE, which exploits an End-User Programming paradigm combining blocks, tables, and forms-filling interfaces. Unlike previous approaches, robot behavioral code generated by Open RIZE is intrinsically modular, re-usable, scalable, neutral to the employed programming language, and platformagnostic. In the article, we present the main design guidelines and features of Open RIZE. Additionally, we perform an initial usability evaluation of the Open RIZE interface in an online workshop. Preliminary results using the System Usability Scale with 10 novice end-users indicate that Open RIZE is easy-to-use and learn.INDEX TERMS Robotics, human-robot interaction, end-user development, robot programming, social robots, service robots.

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Section: Related Work and Contributionsmentioning

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Towards a Modular and Distributed End-User Development Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

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“…O sistema, chamado SmartFit Rule Editor, foi projetado para ser usado por treinadores a fim de monitorar e analisar a rotina de atletas. Por outro lado, Serja et al [30] apresentaram o BEESM, um aplicativo de programação de usuário final baseado na programação por blocos, que permite a usuários inexperientes e programadores novatos desenvolverem rapidamente aplicativos para dispositivos e ambientes inteligentes.…”

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Descrição do processo de implementação de recursos para autoria colaborativa síncrona na plataforma ESPIM

Dantas,

Da Silva,

Oliveira

et al. 2023

Cad. Pedagógico

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O ESPIM, abreviação de “Experience Sampling and Programmed Intervention Method” em inglês, é uma metodologia que integra os conceitos do método “Experience Sampling Method”' (ESM) e das áreas de Computação Ubíqua e “'End-User Development”' (EUD). Essa metodologia combina a coleta estruturada de autorrelatos em ambientes naturais com a aplicação programada de intervenções por meio de smartphones, utilizando várias formas de mídia. Para criar e implementar programas de intervenção por meio do ESPIM, os profissionais especialistas utilizam uma plataforma que inclui software web para a autoria dos programas, programas esses que são acessados remotamente pelos usuários-alvo por meio de um aplicativo Android. No entanto, um dos desafios enfrentados pelos profissionais que utilizam o ESPIM é a ausência de suporte para a edição colaborativa síncrona dos programas de intervenção. Isso é especialmente relevante devido à crescente demanda por ambientes de autoria que permitam a colaboração em tempo real entre autores. As soluções apresentadas neste trabalho podem guiar desenvolvedores que desejem transformar seus editores em sistemas que promovem o trabalho em equipe com edição síncrona.

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“…The Block-based End-user programming tool for SMart Environments (BEESM) [100] is a VPE framework based on Google Blockly. The application allows for rapid prototyping of applications involving smart environments, microcontrollers and mobile robots.…”

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Visual Programming Environments for End-User Development of intelligent and social robots, a systematic review

Coronado

Mastrogiovanni

Indurkhya

et al. 2020

Journal of Computer Languages

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Robots are becoming interactive and robust enough to be adopted outside laboratories and in industrial scenarios as well as interacting with humans in social activities. However, the design of engaging robotbased applications requires the availability of usable, flexible and accessible development frameworks, which can be adopted and mastered by researchers and practitioners in social sciences and adult end users as a whole. This paper surveys Visual Programming Environments aimed at enabling a paradigm fostering the so-called End-User Development of applications involving robots with social capabilities. The focus of this article is on those Visual Programming Environments that are designed to support social research goals as well as to cater for professional needs of people not trained in more traditional text-based computer programming languages. This survey excludes interfaces aimed at supporting expert programmers, at allowing industrial robots to perform typical industrial tasks (such as pick and place operations), and at teaching children how to code. After having performed a systematic search, sixteen programming environments have been included in this survey. Our goal is two-fold: first, to present these software tools with their technical features and Authoring Artificial Intelligence modeling approaches, and second, to present open challenges in the development of Visual Programming Environments for end users and social researchers, which can be informative and valuable to the community. The results show that the most recent such tools are adopting distributed and Component-Based Software Engineering approaches and web technologies. However, few of them have been designed to enable the independence of end users from high-tech scribes. Moreover, findings indicate the need for (i) more objective and comparative evaluations, as well as usability and user experience studies with real end users; and (ii) validations of these tools for designing applications aimed at working "in-the-wild" rather than only in laboratories and structured settings.

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BEESM, a block-based educational programming tool for end users

Cited by 20 publications

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Towards a Modular and Distributed End-User Development Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

Towards a Modular and Distributed End-User Development Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

Descrição do processo de implementação de recursos para autoria colaborativa síncrona na plataforma ESPIM

Visual Programming Environments for End-User Development of intelligent and social robots, a systematic review

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