New Frontiers for Psychology and Education: Robotics
Barbara Caci, Antonella D’Amico, Maurizio Cardaci · Psychological Reports · 2004
The paper reviews the first attempts to study the educational and psychological usefulness of robotics: (1) the social and cooperative dimensions involved in the robot-building activities; (2) the reasoning strategies implied in building and programming robots; (3) the influences of robotics on mathematical and scientific achievement; (4) the use of robotics in modification of social skills of autistic children.