Replication Package

Welcome to the replication package of our paper entitled "Block-based Programming for Two-Armed Robots: A Comparative Study", published at ICSE 2024.

Repository Structure

Our package is divided into files and folders, and it is organized as follows:

To read our paper, download the preprint file.

Spreadsheets

• demographics.xlsx contains the demographics data from our 52 participants.
• qualitative_analysis.xlsx contains the qualitative data and its respective analyses.
• quantitative_analysis.xlsx contains the quantitative data and its respective analyses.
• questionnaire_raw.xlsx contains the unformatted data from the post-experiment questionnaire.

Folders

• Inside the images folder, you will find all the images used in our paper.
• Inside the prototype folder, you will find Duplo and instructions on how to build it.
• Inside the raw_data folder, you will find the questionnaire spreadsheet and the programs implemented by the participants (a few programs may be missing due to technical errors).
• Inside the resources folder, you will find all the documentation used to set up the experiment and to train the proctors and the participants. The questionnaire template is also available in this folder.
• Inside the review folder, you will find information implemented and used during the review process for ICSE.
• The icons folder contains the copyright licenses for the icons we used in the method illustration.

Contact

If you have any questions or are interested in contributing to our next studies, please don't hesitate to contact us:

• Felipe Fronchetti (fronchettl@vcu.edu)
• David Shepherd (dshepherd@lsu.edu)