Programming Environments – Integrated environments.

Current programming environments use textual or symbolic representations. While these representations are appropriate for describing logical processes, they are not appropriate for representing raw values such as human and robot posture data, which are necessary for handling gesture input and controlling robots. To address this issue, we propose Picode, a text-based development environment augmented with inline visual representations: photos of human and robots. With Picode, the user first takes a photo to bind it to posture data. She then drag-and-drops the photo into the code editor, where it is displayed as an inline image. A preliminary user study revealed positive effects of taking photos on the programming experience