论文标题
为儿童的人工智能和机器人技术驾驶多样性和包容性研讨会
Piloting Diversity and Inclusion Workshops in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Children
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论文摘要
在本文中，我们介绍了一个试点研讨会的初步工作，旨在在发展中国家的背景下，旨在促进儿童（AIR4CHILDREN）的人工智能和机器人技术基础的多样性和纳入。考虑到资金的稀缺性以及专业专业人员在发展中国家教授AI和机器人技术的几乎没有可用性，我们根据免费的开源硬件和软件，开放的教育资源以及替代教育计划来展示资源。也就是说，这项工作的贡献是四个课程的试点研讨会，这些课程促进了对儿童的AI和机器人技术的多样性和包容性，以对14个平均年龄为7.64岁的14个儿童的少量性别平衡样本。我们得出的结论是，参与者，讲师，协调员和父母在试点研讨会上良好地参与了，他们指出了为发展中国家的研讨会提供正确资源并构成未来工作的各种挑战。重现这项工作的资源可在https://github.com/air4children/hri2022上获得。
In this paper, we present preliminary work from a pilot workshop that aimed to promote diversity and inclusion for fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Children (air4children) in the context of developing countries. Considering the scarcity of funding and the little to none availability of specialised professionals to teach AI and robotics in developing countries, we present resources based on free open-source hardware and software, open educational resources, and alternative education programs. That said, the contribution of this work is the pilot workshop of four lessons that promote diversity and inclusion on teaching AI and Robotics for children to a small gender-balanced sample of 14 children of an average age of 7.64 years old. We conclude that participant, instructors, coordinators and parents engaged well in the pilot workshop noting the various challenges of having the right resources for the workshops in developing countries and posing future work. The resources to reproduce this work are available at https://github.com/air4children/hri2022.
