Imagining robots of the future
Examining sixth-graders’ perceptions of robots through their literary products
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21744061 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Changzhao Wang (0000-0002-4939-347X, University of Miami, corresponding author), Ji Shen (0000-0001-9143-5648, University of Miami), Hua Ran (0000-0002-1056-8375, University of Miami) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 684-709 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1539-1523 • E-ISSN: 1945-0818 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15391523.2022.2030264 |
| OpenAlex | W4210626873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 44 |
With the popularity of robotics education, attention has been drawn to students’ perceptions of robots. This study provides a framework to understand students’ imagination about and perceptions of robots from four dimensions of robot identity—nature, social, emotional, and evolutionary. We applied the framework on 80 literary products generated by 16 sixth-grade students in a course that integrated robotics programming and literacy, such as writing and drawing about their imagination of future robots, and digital comics developed from their stories about robot. The analyses revealed a wide range of variation in terms of robot identity and the robot’s overall resemblance to human
Aesthetics · Art · Comics · Educational robotics · Human–computer interaction · Literacy · Mathematics education · Mobile robot · Pedagogy · Perception · Popularity · Robot · Robot control · Robotics · Social robot · Sociology · Computer Science · Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research · Psychology · Science Education and Perceptions · Social Psychology · Teaching and Learning Programming · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |