Robot theater with children for STEAM education
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
9-2017
Abstract
To promote STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education, we conducted a long-term study in an elementary school as part of an after-school program. We worked with small groups of 5 to 7 year old children in hour long weekly sessions for nine weeks. We introduced the children to a variety of robots spanning a wide range of form factors and technical sophistication. Over the course of our study, the children played with the robots, constructed robot models with clay, and wrote and acted in a theater production with robots. We believe that this technique of using robots as actors in children’s theater productions has significant potential for educating children in a number of fields under the STEAM paradigm.
Publication Title
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
Recommended Citation
Barnes, J.,
FakhrHosseini, M.,
Vasey, E.,
Duford, Z.,
&
Jeon, M.
(2017).
Robot theater with children for STEAM education.
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting,
61(1), 875-879.
http://doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601511
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