The create-a-face activity

Get the class programming a giant robot face – made of students.

Explore programming by making an affective (relating to moods and emotions) robot face out of card, tubes and students. Program it to react to different kinds of sounds (nasty, nice or sudden) and show different emotions (sad, happy, surprised). Then think up some other facial expressions and program rules to make the face respond to sounds with the new expressions.

Learn about:

  • programming
  • if statements
  • simple object-based programming
  • human-computer interaction
  • artificial intelligence.

Resources This session comes with linked activity sheets and ‘story’ write-ups that you can download:

This activity is closely related to the Emotion Machine Activity.

Videos

Social Robot video – Blade

Make A Face video

4 thoughts on “The create-a-face activity”

  1. Pingback: Paul Curzon gave a keynote at the Keycit2014 conference in Potsdam today | Teaching London Computing

  2. Pingback: Computing Whole Cohort 1 | Contemporary Issues in Teaching and Learning

  3. Pingback: Whole Cohort 1 | Pedagogy, Principles and Practice in Early Childhood

  4. Pingback: Coding resources for early years and primary |

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.