Using Robots in Beginning Computer Science Courses

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• NSF CCLI project

Videos

• A video of the 2006 lab in the CSci 1901 course using the AIBO dogs.
  The lab was done in Scheme. Remember, you can do whatever you want in Scheme, even get a dog to dance!
  Work partially supported by NSF under grant DUE-CCLI-0511304 and by the Bush Foundation program at the University of Minnesota to improve learning in large classes. For more information on the NSF project visit Extending the Next Generation Robot Laboratory to Increase Diversity in Undergraduate CS Programs
• Videos on YouTube of the AIBO labs done in CSci 1901 Spring 2007.

Courses

• IofT 1910w -- Robot Pets - Fall 2006, a freshman seminar using the Sony dogs AIBO.
• CSci 5980, sec 4 - Legged Robots - Spring 2005

Publications and Presentations

• John Chilton and Maria Gini. Using the AIBOs in a CS1 course. In AAAI Spring Symposium -- Robots and Robot Venues: resources for AI education, pp. 24–28, AAAI, Technical Report SS-07-09, 2007.
  
• M. Gini, J. Pearce, and K. Sutherland. Using the Sony AIBOs to Increase Diversity in Undergraduate CS Programs, in Proc. of the Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-9, Japan (March 2006) pp 1033-1040.
• M. Gini, J. Pearce, and K. Sutherland. Extending the Next Generation Robot Laboratory to Increase Diversity in Undergraduate CS Programs, NSF CCLI Showcase, SigCSE 2006, Houston, TX (March 2006).