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Kim, Yanghee; Marx, Sherry; Pham, Hung Viet; Nguyen, Tung – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
This qualitative study explored the design and implementation of a humanoid social robot that mediated collaborative interactions among culturally and linguistically diverse kindergarten children in a US school. The robotic mediation was designed to help children have positive interactions with one another. The study was grounded in theories of…
Descriptors: Robotics, Computer Mediated Communication, Ethnography, Interpersonal Communication
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Dubé, Adam K.; McEwen, Rhonda N. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Using Luhmann's communication theory and affordance theories, we develop a framework to examine how kindergarten-grade 2 students interact with tablet computers. We assessed whether cognitive ability and device configuration influence how successfully children use tablet computers. We found that children's limited ability to direct their cognitive…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Primary Education, Handheld Devices, Computer Use