Title : 
S!Ci: A new approach to user created robot contents
         
        
            Author : 
Lee, Deukwoo ; Kim, Jinsung ; Cho, Hye-Kyung
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Hansung Univ., Seoul, South Korea
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we introduce a structure of a software platform in which robots and multimedia can be programmed together to make a new type of convergent contents. To encourage people´s participation who are not familiar with programming languages, and to allow them to focus on creating new ideas, we employ a two-stage based programming scheme. At the high-level description stage, users can assign the interactions among physical robots and multimedia characters with very intuitive user interfaces, whereas in the low-level description stage, very detailed events and behaviors of each object can be programmed with elementary building blocks.
         
        
            Keywords : 
computer aided instruction; human-robot interaction; multimedia computing; programming languages; robot programming; user interfaces; visual programming; S!Ci; convergent contents; description stage; educational robots; multimedia characters; software platform; two-stage based programming scheme; user created robot contents; user interfaces; visual programming languages; Educational institutions; Multimedia communication; Programming profession; Service robots; convergent contents; educational robots; visual programming language;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2011 8th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Incheon
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0722-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/URAI.2011.6145904