Educational Robotics in the Service of the Gestalt Similarity Principle
Aphrodite Sophokleous, Angelos A. Amanatiadis, Socratis Gkelios, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis · 2022
Today, many technological approaches, including educational robotics (ER), enrich the teaching process through gamification. Several studies have shown that educational activities with robots lead to increased student interest, a positive and more effective learning process, and several different skills. This paper adopts a content-based image retrieval mechanism to automate the Gestalt similarity testing process and evaluates the impact of the involvement of a humanoid robot. The proposed framework aims to improve participants' visual perception, cultivate their creativity, and improve their visual working memory. During a pilot study, the participants communicate with the proposed framework either by using a tablet or by interacting with a humanoid NAO robot. The experimental results showed that the participation of NAO significantly increased the interest, attention, and commitment of the students.