BPC-DP: Accessible Robotic Programming for Students with Disabilities (ARoPability)

佐治亚理工学院提出了一个项目ARoPability将利用视障人士中心、佐治亚州全国盲人联合会、亚特兰大儿童保健中心、WizKidz科学和技术中心以及佐治亚理工学院的支持。它将(1)创建替代编程工具，并将其用于为有视觉或身体障碍的学生开发无障碍模块；(2)在视障中心和全国盲人联合会运营机器人学院，以评估模块吸引视力障碍学生的能力；(3)与亚特兰大儿童保健机构合作，评估模块吸引身体障碍学生的能力；以及(4)提供教师培训工具包和课堂使用的文件。这项工作将集中在这样的问题上：需要改变基于机器人的活动的哪些特征来吸引视力障碍的学生？可以采用哪些技术来实现基于机器人的编程活动，以满足肢体残疾学生的需要？教育工作者是否已经采用了现有的教学模式来培训这些新的计算专业人员？可以利用什么方法来扩大视觉或身体残疾学生对计算的参与？ARoPability开发的技术将推动残疾学生参与计算活动的最先进水平。

The Georgia Institute of Technology proposes a project - called Accessible Robotic Programming for Students with Disabilities (ARoPability) - to investigate the use of alternative interface modalities in engaging middle and high school students with disabilities in robotics-based programming activities. ARoPability will leverage support from the Center for the Visually Impaired, the National Federation of the Blind of Georgia, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, WizKidz Science and Technology Center, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. It will (1) create alternative programming tools and use them in developing accessible modules for students with visual or physical impairments, (2) run Robotic Institutes at the Center for the Visually Impaired and with the National Federation of the Blind to evaluate the modules' ability to engage students with visual impairments, (3) run Robotic Institutes in conjunction with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to evaluate the modules ability to engage students with physical impairments, and (4) provide teacher training kits and documentation for classroom use. The work will focus on questions such as: What characteristics of robotics-based activities need to be transformed to engage students with visual impairments? What technologies can be adapted to enable achievement of robotics-based programming activities for students with physical impairments? Are there existing teaching modalities already employed by educators that can be used to train these new computing professionals? What methods can be exploited to broaden participation in computing for students with visual or physical impairments? The techniques developed by ARoPability will advance the state-of-the-art in engaging students with disabilities in computing activities.