Using Electronic Tangibles to Promote Learning

AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium

Program Schedule

The symposium will take place Monday March 22 - Wednesday March 24, 2010. The detailed schedule is below.

Monday, March 22

  • 9:00-9:30 Welcome and Introduction
  • 9:30-10:30 Invited Speaker: Doug Blank
  • 10:30-11:00 Break
  • 11:00-12:30 Paper session:
    J. Grasel, W. Vonnegut, and Z. Dodds, "Bitwise Biology: Crossdisciplinary physical computing atop the Arduino"
    B. Osborne, A. Thomas, and J. Forbes, "RoboCupJunior Primer: Expanding educational robotics"
    J. Kay, "Robots as Recruitment Tools in Computer Science: The New Frontier or Simply Bait and Switch?"
  • 12:30-2:00 Lunch
  • 2:00-3:00 Panel session: Beyond First Impressions and Fine Farewells: Electronic Tangibles throughout the Curriculum
  • 3:00-4:00 Small group break out activity: How do we avoid bait and switch?
  • 4:00-4:30 Break
  • 4:30-5:30 Paper session:
    D. Anderson, J. Gottlieb, E. Thill, and K. Lockwood, "IRIS: A student-driven mobile robotics project"
    T. Padir, W. Michalson, G. Fischer, and G. Pollice, "Development of a Platform for Teaching Robotics Engineering"
  • 5:30-6:00 Break to walk to reception
  • 6:00-7:00 Reception

Tuesday, March 23

  • 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Debbie Bernstein
  • 10:00-10:30 Paper session:
    E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, and D. Bernstein, "The Debugging Task: Evaluating a Robotics Design Workshop"
  • 10:30-11:00 Break
  • 11:00-11:45 Panel session: Tricks of the Trade: Insights on Evaluation
  • 11:45-12:30 Small group break out activity on evaluation
  • 12:30-2:00 Lunch
  • 2:00-4:00 Paper session:
    F. Martin, S. Kuhn, M. Scribner-MacLean, C. Corcoran, J. Dalphond, J. Fertitta, Mc. McGuinness, S. Christy, and I. Rudnicki, "iSENSE: A Web Environment and Hardware Platform for Data Sharing and Citizen Science"
    D. Crismond, M. Hynes, and E. Danahy, "The Design Compass: A computer tool for scaffolding students' metacognition and discussion about their engineering design process"
    W. Church, T. Ford, N. Perova, and C. Rogers, "Physics With Robotics: Using LEGO MINDSTORMS in High School Education"
    D. Wong, D. Earl, F. Zyda, and S. Koenig, "Teaching Robotics and Computer Science with Pinball Machines"
  • 4:00-4:30 Break
  • 4:30-5:30 Invited Speaker: Robbie Berg
  • 5:30-6:00 Break, walk to plenary session
  • 6:00-7:00 Plenary Session

Wednesday, March 24th

  • 9:00-9:30 Introduction to robots and other tangible devices brought by participants
  • 9:30-11:30 Workshop: Free play with devices
  • 11:30-12:00 Demo results of workshop
  • 12:00-12:30 Symposium wrap up