TY - GEN
T1 - Designing a tangible learning environment with a teachable agent
AU - Muldner, Kasia
AU - Lozano, Cecil
AU - Girotto, Victor
AU - Burleson, Winslow
AU - Walker, Erin
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - To date, the majority of learning technologies only afford virtual interactions on desktops or tablets, despite evidence that students learn through physical manipulation of their environment. We implemented a tangible system that allows students to solve coordinate geometry problems by interacting in a physical space with digitally augmented devices, using a teachable agent framing. We describe our system and the results from a pilot involving students using our system to teach a virtual agent. Students used a variety of strategies to solve problems that included embodied behaviors, and the majority did feel they were teaching their agent. We discuss the implications of our findings with respect to the design of adaptive tangible teachable systems.
AB - To date, the majority of learning technologies only afford virtual interactions on desktops or tablets, despite evidence that students learn through physical manipulation of their environment. We implemented a tangible system that allows students to solve coordinate geometry problems by interacting in a physical space with digitally augmented devices, using a teachable agent framing. We describe our system and the results from a pilot involving students using our system to teach a virtual agent. Students used a variety of strategies to solve problems that included embodied behaviors, and the majority did feel they were teaching their agent. We discuss the implications of our findings with respect to the design of adaptive tangible teachable systems.
KW - Geometry
KW - Tangible learning environments
KW - Teachable agents
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39112-5-31
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39112-5-31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880034604
SN - 9783642391118
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 299
EP - 308
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Education - 16th International Conference, AIED 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013
Y2 - 9 July 2013 through 13 July 2013
ER -