Kid Coding Games and Artistic Robots: Attitudes and Gaze Behavior

Abstract

We present a study in the context of coding activities for children. Our main focus is towards understanding the relation between children’s attitudes towards coding and their behaviour while coding. Forty-four school children participated in this study solving different coding problems. We used mixed methods to capture attitude and behaviour of the children participating in the study. The attitudes towards learning to program were recorded using the self-reporting questionnaires and the behaviour was captured using the eye-trackers. The results show that the gaze-behaviour of the children moderates the relationship among the different attitudes towards coding.