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From: Jeanette Phillips <arnette@ee.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Help! Psychology of learning robotics
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I'm currently studying robotics at UWA.  I'd like to start researching
how people learn technical things (especially robotics).  How can this
learning process be made easier?  What makes Lego Technics so much
fun to work with?  

A case in point:

I spent some time connecting Lego Technics to a PC via the Lego Dacta interface
box.  Later, I spent some time connecting a circuit that I had designed to a 
PC.  Even though my circuit was very simple, I was much more reticent
to connect my ciucuit to the PC than the Lego interface.  Why?

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Jeanette Phillips                      arnette@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au             
Masters Preliminary Student (Robotics)
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
The University of Western Australia
