1. Your Mission is to Collaboratively Program a
LEGO Robot via a Virtual World
Dr. Michael Vallance.
Future University Hakodate, Japan
http://www.mvallance.net

2. Programming robots in virtual worlds.
• Provides closed, highly defined tasks.
• Level of difficulty can be quantified.
• Task difficulty = the minimum number of discrete maneuvers (action +
direction) required to successfully navigate a given maze (Barker and Ansorge,
2007).
• Tasks can be replicated (same level of difficulty but different maneuvers).
• Provoke behaviors and communicative exchanges which could be located on a
framework for analysis.
• Science awareness for youth + citizens = ‘Japan recovery’

3. Research aim: Design an evidence-
based framework of learning for
tasks of measurable complexity in
virtual worlds.

10. Data is captured and coded: virtual screen capture + real world video capture.

18. Future research

19. Research aim: Design an evidence-
based framework of learning for
tasks of measurable complexity in
virtual worlds.

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• Contact for collaboration
mvallance@mac.com
• Research Website
http://web.me.com/mvallance/PM12/
PM12/PM12.html
• Michael’s Website with publications at
http://www.mvallance.net
• International Virtual Environments Research Group
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