GoDonnie: A Robot Programming Language to Improve Orientation and Mobility Skills in People Who are Visually Impaired

摘要

This work presents GoDonnie a programming language to command a robot to improve orientation and mobility(O&M) skills in people who are visually impaired (PVI). The GoDonnie programming language is based on the Logo language. GoDonnie runs in a programming environment called Donnie. This environment has a 2D graphic simulator with a virtual robot, in which one can visualise and receive sound feedback from the execution of the language commands for moving the virtual robot in the environment. GoDonnie has been evaluated with PVI to verify its usability and support to O&M. The results indicate that GoDonnie has good usability, supports the development of O&M in PVI and meets the expectations regarding the programming environment. A video of GoDonnie execution is available in https://youtu.be/HE__sAgfNBo