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Aspects of Using Telepresence Robot in a Higher Education STEAM Workshop

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Telepresence robots (TPRs) are becoming increasingly popular in education as they support social presence (an important component of human communication) of teachers and students. This paper presents the results of a study that explored the challenges of using a telepresence robot in a higher education STEAM workshop through the eyes of a teacher, telepresence robot mediated persons and physically present students. We identified crucial aspects that need to be addressed when involving telepresence robots in the hybrid teaching and learning process. The perspectives of using TPRs were mostly positive. However, technical support and changes in classroom practices are needed for successful use of TPRs in the teaching and learning process. Although TPRs enable greater social presence, the technology is still novel and its successful implementation requires more research, focusing on applying effective pedagogical design principles and adapting the environment accordingly to the conditions necessary for the successful operation of the TPRs. The TPR’s passenger option did not yield positive results in our research. This caused the participants to become detached from what was happening in the classroom, feel unable to control the situation, and supported social presence even less than using teleconference-based distance learning methods.

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  1. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Janika Leoste, Tiina Kasuk, Aleksei Talisainen & Katrin Kangur

  2. School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Janika Leoste & Sirje Virkus

  3. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Calle Tulipán, s/n, Móstoles, 28933, Madrid, Spain

    Piedad Tolmos

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Leoste, J., Virkus, S., Kasuk, T., Talisainen, A., Kangur, K., Tolmos, P. (2022). Aspects of Using Telepresence Robot in a Higher Education STEAM Workshop. In: Pardede, E., Delir Haghighi, P., Khalil, I., Kotsis, G. (eds) Information Integration and Web Intelligence. iiWAS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13635. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21047-1_2

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