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DESCRIPTION:Collaborative learning with augmented reality and social robots
 \n\n \n\nAugmented reality (AR) facilitates an interactive experience in a
  physical environment where the three-dimensional objects that exist in th
 e physical world are extended with computer-generated perceptual informati
 on. Social robots are a special kind of robots that can interact and commu
 nicate with people by following social etiquette attached to a specific ro
 le. Both augmented reality and social robots facilitate the creation of ne
 w interactive pedagogic methods to help increase students’ knowledge thr
 ough an immersive and personalized learning manner. In this proposal\, we 
 explore the use of these two emerging technologies to design collaborative
  learning schemes involving both teachers and students. Specifically\, we 
 target the subjects of earth science education and cybersecurity education
  to demonstrate how interactive and collaborative learning technologies wo
 uld strengthen students’ knowledge and motivate them to pursue careers i
 n STEM and ICT fields.\n\n\nOur first effort calls for the design of a Mix
 ed Reality Tornado Simulator which provides a collaborative earth science 
 education curriculum in STEM classes to students of Grades 4 to 6. With th
 e Mixed Reality Tornado Simulator\, the abstract knowledge of tornado is t
 ransformed into tangible interactions that students and teachers could con
 figure and manipulate. We plan to analyze the immersive experience\, situa
 tional interest\, and knowledge of the participants after human-subject ex
 periment to evaluate the learning performance.\n\n\nOur second effort desi
 gns interactive story-telling programs on social robots to teach foundatio
 nal cybersecurity concepts\, such as password\, phishing\, and social medi
 a privacy\, to students of Grades 3 to 6. The goal of this effort aims to 
 increase children’s knowledge of basic cybersecurity concepts by using s
 ocial robots. Specifically\, we embedded these cybersecurity concepts into
  three interactive stories programmed on the Zenbo social robot. We also i
 nvited four teachers into a focus group to iteratively improve the stories
  and explore the best ways to adopt the stories into classroom instruction
 . We plan to conduct a multistage evaluation of both teachers and students
  to examine students' learning performance of cybersecurity concepts\, int
 erest in cybersecurity\, engagement level\, as well as teacher’s opinion
 s of bringing the social robot into their classroom.​\n\n\nOur third eff
 ort proposes an interactive AR-based environment to increase middle school
  students' knowledge and interest in cybersecurity. We have designed inter
 active activities that make abstract cybersecurity concepts (such as firew
 all\, steganography\, and phishing) more tangible by using the emerging AR
  technology to teach knowledge of cybersecurity\, capture situational inte
 rest\, and develop students’ self-efficacy for cybersecurity and\, more 
 broadly\, CS careers. To evaluate the learning performance and our AR-base
 d design\, we have programmed the Mixed Reality Phishing application for t
 he initial study. The Mixed Reality Phishing application enables students 
 to interact with virtual objects by manipulating a physical object to prov
 ide a tangible interaction form. We have collected and customized the phis
 hing contents based on the popular social media platforms of different cou
 ntries to provide a realistic training scenario. We plan to analyze the im
 mersive experience\, situational interest\, and workload of the participan
 ts after the human-subject experiment to evaluate the learning performance
  and user experience of the participants.
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SUMMARY:Phd. Proposal Defense- Yan-Ming Chiou
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 _chiou
CATEGORIES:Academics
CATEGORIES:College of Engineering
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