From dblank at cs.brynmawr.edu Mon Jul 13 12:57:16 2009 From: dblank at cs.brynmawr.edu (Douglas S. Blank) Date: Mon Jul 27 12:27:44 2009 Subject: [Pyro-users] Using Electronic Tangibles to Promote Learning Message-ID: <4A5B676C.3060800@cs.brynmawr.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: AAAI Spring Symposium Using Electronic Tangibles to Promote Learning: Design and Evaluation http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~AAAI10-ETPL/ March 22-24, 2010, Stanford University Submissions due: Oct 2, 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------- For over twenty years, robots, electronics, microcontrollers, and other physically-instantiated devices have been used as educational tools in both formal (in-school) and informal (out-of-school) settings. Particularly at the high school and undergraduate levels, these tools have been used to enhance computer science education and illustrate artificial intelligence concepts. In the last several years, a number of programs have been developed which use physically instantiated devices to promote learning in a wider variety of topics, including science, engineering, math, as well as storytelling, sculpture, and other art forms. Such programs, while not always directly teaching AI concepts, do promote technological literacy in participants and may motivate some to further study in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In order to further expand programs based on electronic, tangible components into these and other areas, it is important to demonstrate the impacts that these education programs have on participants, in both the short- and the long-term. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers working with many different types of programs, including researchers in robotics, computer science, education, and formal and informal learning evaluation. This workshop will highlight (1) work featuring AI- and electronic tangibles used to promote learning in any topic (including approaches targeting arts and humanities in addition to STEM education); and (2) descriptions of the evaluation methodology and impacts of such programs. Topics of interest include: * Design of physically instantiated electronic educational tools * Curriculum design process * Evaluation methodology for programs featuring electronic tangibles * Evaluation results from such programs, both quantitative and qualitative We welcome contributions describing programs in both in and out of school settings, utilizing a variety of electronic tangibles (robots, microcontrollers,...), targeting any age, and promoting learning in the arts, humanities, or STEM disciplines. In addition to papers, we welcome short abstracts for demonstration/hands-on sessions and panel discussion sessions. Submissions We welcome prospective participants to submit either full papers (up to 6 pages), short papers (1-2 pages), or panel proposals (up to 2 pages, clearly indicating the names, affiliations, and email addresses for all panelists). Where appropriate, participants are strongly encouraged to demonstrate educational projects at the symposium and/or provide hands-on experiences for other symposium participants (please indicate your demonstration plans with paper submissions). Selected papers (both long and short) from the symposium will be published as an AAAI technical report. All submissions should be in PDF format adhering to the AAAI conference paper formatting guidelines, and should be sent to Tom Lauwers at tlauwers@andrew.cmu.edu by October 2nd, 2009. ---------------------------------------------------------- -- Douglas S. Blank Director, Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) http://www.roboteducation.org Chair, and Associate Professor, Computer Science, Bryn Mawr College http://cs.brynmawr.edu/~dblank (610)526-6501 From fox at macalester.edu Mon Jul 27 15:40:11 2009 From: fox at macalester.edu (Susan Fox) Date: Mon Jul 27 15:31:25 2009 Subject: [Pyro-users] Fwd: Pyrobot, Player/Stage, and Ubuntu 8.0... In-Reply-To: <519ccf120906020903n6f706ed8he47f28de953e8859@mail.gmail.com> References: <519ccf120906020903n6f706ed8he47f28de953e8859@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <519ccf120907271240o5fe353bfsbb08acc0211b02d2@mail.gmail.com> I'm sending this again, now that the Pyro Users mailing list seems alive again... Thanks, Susan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Fox Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:03 AM Subject: Pyrobot, Player/Stage, and Ubuntu 8.0... To: pyro-users@pyrorobotics.org Hi, there, I have installed Player/Stage 2.0.3 on my Ubuntu system, running Hardy Heron, and I've gotten it to work (I can open up the simulator and connect to it with playerv, at least). I have also installed three different versions of pyrobot, including the latest, and I have seen the same behavior each time (I may need to use Pyrobot 4.6 in order to communicate with the even older Pyrobot on my ancient Pioneer robots). I can start up the Stage simulator, but when I try to connect using Player.py or Player6665.py I get a playerc error. It does not complete the connection to the simulator, and I cannot do anything from that point on. I'm including a transcript that illustrates what happens. I'm using a fairly simple simulated world, just one Pioneer robot in it. The Pyrobot simulator works just fine, so far as I can tell. Someone posted about this earlier, and it was suggested that the robot is trying to connect to the port the simulator is using. But I don't know how to avoid that problem... The problem occurs with the world files provided with Pyrobot, and with those that came with Stage, and with those I created on my own. Could this be a Player issue? I ran the tests that the Player installation called for... I appreciate any help you can provide... Thanks, Susan Here is the transcript: ----------------------------------------------------- macalester@zorro:~/Desktop/Aug2007Vers/simulator$ pyrobot -s StageSimulator -c olin.cfg Using PYROBOT on posix with CPU 0 in '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyrobot'... * Part of the Player/Stage/Gazebo Project [ http://playerstage.sourceforge.net]. * Copyright (C) 2000 - 2006 Brian Gerkey, Richard Vaughan, Andrew Howard, * Nate Koenig, and contributors. Released under the GNU General Public License. * Player comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you * are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see COPYING * for details. PLAYERPATH: :/usr/lib trying to load /libstageplugin... trying to load /usr/lib/libstageplugin... trying to load /home/macalester/Desktop/Aug2007Vers/simulator/./libstageplugin... trying to load /usr/local/lib/libstageplugin... success invoking player_driver_init()... Stage driver plugin init ** Stage plugin v2.0.3 ** * Part of the Player/Stage Project [http://playerstage.sourceforge.net] * Copyright 2000-2006 Richard Vaughan, Andrew Howard, Brian Gerkey * and contributors. Released under the GNU General Public License v2. success Stage driver creating 1 device 6665.31.0 is a Stage world [Loading ./olin.world][Include pioneer.inc][Include map.inc] Loading. warn: worldfile ./olin.world:36 : property [gui_boundary] is defined but not used (worldfile.cc WarnUnused) warn: worldfile ./olin.world:52 : property [polygon[0].filled] is defined but not used (worldfile.cc WarnUnused) warn: worldfile ./olin.world:84 : property [port] is defined but not used (worldfile.cc WarnUnused) Stage driver creating 2 devices 6665.4.0 is "Pioneer" 6665.5.0 is "Pioneer.ranger:0" Listening on ports: 6665 .calling connect done accepted client 0 on port 6665, fd 11 playerc error : poll call failed with error [11:Resource temporarily unavailable] playerc error : recv failed with error [Resource temporarily unavailable] warning : failed to reconnect playerc warning : warning : no socket to write to playerc error : failed to get response playerc warning : warning : no socket to write to playerc error : failed to get response -- Susan Fox Math/CS Department 651-696-6553 Macalester College fox@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/~fox -- Susan Fox Math/CS Department 651-696-6553 Macalester College fox@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/~fox -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/pipermail/pyro-users/attachments/20090727/e1910f1e/attachment.htm From fox at macalester.edu Thu Jul 30 18:36:35 2009 From: fox at macalester.edu (Susan Fox) Date: Thu Jul 30 18:27:38 2009 Subject: [Pyro-users] Test message... Message-ID: <519ccf120907301536i10e1bf03yb48de8444ac3d847@mail.gmail.com> Hi, there, I've tried to send a message a few times to this mailing list, and it hasn't worked yet. Is it me? Best, Susan -- Susan Fox Math/CS Department 651-696-6553 Macalester College fox@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/~fox -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/pipermail/pyro-users/attachments/20090730/7417e593/attachment.htm