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Chatbots for Creating Smart Things with Children: Preliminary Investigations and Several Challenges

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Smart things are pervasive in children’s life. However, children do not know how to create them. Chatbots for children can help them learn how to create their own smart things and reflect around them. This paper reviews current research in the area of chatbots for children with educational aims. It presents a preliminary contextual inquiry with children using the SNaP online game for creating simple smart things. It concludes with reflections on the results of the review and inquiry, in relation to challenges for the design of chatbots for guiding children to create and reflect around technology-driven solutions for them.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Via S. Croce 7, Bressanone, Italy

    Gudrun Leitgeb

  2. Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani 3, Bolzano, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Zuzana Kubincová

  2. Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

    Alessandra Melonio

  3. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Dalila Durães

  4. Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Davide Rua Carneiro

  5. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Mehdi Rizvi

  6. Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Coppito, Italy

    Loreto Lancia

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Leitgeb, G., Gennari, R. (2023). Chatbots for Creating Smart Things with Children: Preliminary Investigations and Several Challenges. In: Kubincová, Z., Melonio, A., Durães, D., Rua Carneiro, D., Rizvi, M., Lancia, L. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops, 12th International Conference. MIS4TEL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 538. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20257-5_20

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