Teegi, he's so cute

Abstract

The cerebral activity is an intangible physiological process difficult to apprehend, especially for children. With the aim of providing a new type of educational support, we studied the pedagogical potential of an interactive tangible interface (Teegi) designed to be used in educational context. This interface aims at enabling children to discover the relation between the brain activity and the human body functions. We propose in this study a methodology to evaluate its pedagogical potential in real context of use, considering the specificities of the children. This study, carried out with 29 pupils, highlights the strengths of this system, both in terms of its usability and its impact on learning. Moreover, the results provided by this methodology revealed possible improvements for a greater pedagogical effectiveness. This type of interactive interface, as well as the evaluation method proposed, paves the way for the pedagogical use of new interactive and tangible devices at school.

CARDS: A Mixed-Reality System for Collaborative Learning at School

“…the ability to support the performance of the task (ii) the Hedonic qualities, namely, the potential of the system to be pleasant to use. The Attrakdiff presented to children is a simplified version of the original Attrakdiff, whose French version is validated, and which has already proven its suitability for the use of children [11]. Figure 6 compiles the feedback from teachers and children from the different sessions.…”