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Queen Mary University of London
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Teleporting Robot
This CS4FN activity from the team at Queen Mary University of London highlights some issues encountered during the design of human-computer interfaces (HCI). It acts as an introduction to HCI, introducing the need to translate problems and to understand how people behave.
The activities include a robot jigsaw which can be arranged in different ways. In its different forms it appears to show different numbers of robots – children are asked how this can be… intelligent moving robots?
The key message is that people can be overwhelmed by complexity and that errors are reduced if interfaces are kept simple. A thorough explanation of the reasons for the apparent solution, and the issues in computer science, is provided. Variations and further reading are suggested too.
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