TY - GEN
T1 - Social robot teaches cybersecurity
AU - Chiou, Yan Ming
AU - Barnes, Tia
AU - Mouza, Chrystalla
AU - Shen, Chien Chung
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Owner/Author.
PY - 2020/6/21
Y1 - 2020/6/21
N2 - Social robots have recently been gaining attention in the education field. Given their capabilities, researchers can use social robots in various ways that support human-robot interactions. In this paper, we present an interactive cybersecurity education program to teach children about foundation cybersecurity concepts using a social robot. To create child-robot interactions in cybersecurity education, we devised three processes. First, in collaboration with practicing teachers we developed an interactive story to support student engagement and learning of cybersecurity concepts. Second, we prototyped animations for the story on the social robot. Third, we use a mixed-methods approach to pilot test our cybersecurity education program. Our research highlights the potential of social robot use in education, both for child-robot interaction and K-12 cybersecurity education.
AB - Social robots have recently been gaining attention in the education field. Given their capabilities, researchers can use social robots in various ways that support human-robot interactions. In this paper, we present an interactive cybersecurity education program to teach children about foundation cybersecurity concepts using a social robot. To create child-robot interactions in cybersecurity education, we devised three processes. First, in collaboration with practicing teachers we developed an interactive story to support student engagement and learning of cybersecurity concepts. Second, we prototyped animations for the story on the social robot. Third, we use a mixed-methods approach to pilot test our cybersecurity education program. Our research highlights the potential of social robot use in education, both for child-robot interaction and K-12 cybersecurity education.
KW - K-12 education
KW - STEM
KW - collaborative learning
KW - cybersecurity education
KW - interest development
KW - social robots
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U2 - 10.1145/3397617.3397824
DO - 10.1145/3397617.3397824
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85092044171
T3 - Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
SP - 199
EP - 204
BT - Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
Y2 - 17 June 2020 through 24 June 2020
ER -