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RoboboITS: A Simulation-Based Tutoring System to Support AI Education Through Robotics

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Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky (AIED 2023)

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This paper presents a novel tutoring system to educate pre-university students about AI, a key issue to develop AI in Education for Sustainable Society. With the aim of following a learning-by-doing approach to AI, we decided to focus on robotics as the main application domain for the students’ activities. Specifically, the tutoring system is based on the Robobo educational robot, and its simulation environment. A prototype version of the tutoring system, called RoboboITS, has been released and tested in two in-person sessions with 17 students in a secondary school at Virginia (USA), leading to and promising outcomes for future development.

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Grant TED2021-131172B-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”.

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  1. CITIC Research Center, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

    S. Guerreiro-Santalla & F. Bellas

  2. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    H. Crompton

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ning Wang

  2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez

  3. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Vania Dimitrova

  4. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Noboru Matsuda

  5. UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Olga C. Santos

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Guerreiro-Santalla, S., Crompton, H., Bellas, F. (2023). RoboboITS: A Simulation-Based Tutoring System to Support AI Education Through Robotics. In: Wang, N., Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Dimitrova, V., Matsuda, N., Santos, O.C. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky. AIED 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_62

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