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Learning Symmetry with Tangible Robots

Johal, Wafa  
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Andersen, Sonia
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Chevalier, Morgane  
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January 1, 2020
Robotics In Education: Current Research And Innovations
10th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE)

Robots bring a new potential for embodied learning in classrooms. With our project, we aim to ease the task for teachers and to show the worth of tangible manipulation of robots in educational contexts. In this article, we present the design and the evaluation of two pedagogical activities prepared for a primary school teacher and targeting common misconceptions when learning reflective symmetry. The evaluation consisted of a comparison of remedial actions using haptic-enabled tangible robots with using regular geometrical tools in practical sessions. Sixteen 10 y.o. students participated in a between-subject experiment in a public school. We show that this training with the tangible robots helped the remediation of parallelism and perpendicularity related mistakes commonly made by students. Our findings also suggest that the haptic modality of interaction is well suited to promote children's abstraction of geometrical concepts from spatial representations.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-26945-6_24
Web of Science ID

WOS:000505062900039

Author(s)
Johal, Wafa  
Andersen, Sonia
Chevalier, Morgane  
Ozgur, Ayberk  
Mondada, Francesco  
Dillenbourg, Pierre  
Date Issued

2020-01-01

Publisher

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG

Publisher place

Cham

Published in
Robotics In Education: Current Research And Innovations
ISBN of the book

978-3-030-26945-6

978-3-030-26944-9

Series title/Series vol.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volume

1023

Start page

270

End page

283

Subjects

Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

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Education, Scientific Disciplines

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Robotics

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Computer Science

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Education & Educational Research

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robot for learning

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tangible

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haptic

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education

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child-robot interaction

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
CHILI  
LSRO  
AVP-E-LEARN  
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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
10th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE)

Vienna, AUSTRIA

Apr 10-12, 2019

Available on Infoscience
March 3, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/166649
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