PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, April 15th Thursday, April 16th Friday, April 17th
Wednesday, April 15th
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10:10-11:20 Session 1.1: Education Objectives
Chair:
| 10:10 | Curiosity-Eliciting Questioning Strategies in Robot-Assisted Pitch Training: An Experimental Study (abstract) PRESENTER: Georges Arnaud Kouayim Bonga |
| 10:30 | Robo4Ever - an interdisciplinary Approach to integrating Future Skills into Higher Education (abstract) PRESENTER: Christine Roch |
| 10:50 | Reflections and Recommendations on Design, Implementation of Learning Activities and Assessment of Target Competences in Educational Robotics Contexts (abstract) PRESENTER: Brigitte Denis |
11:30-12:50 Session 1.2: Early Robotics Education
Chair:
| 11:30 | Educational Robotics in a STEAM Laboratory: Pre-Adolescent Students’ Perceptions of Science (abstract) PRESENTER: Maria Brembilla |
| 11:50 | Design and Assessment of Activity-Based Educational Robotics for Skill Development in Pre-School Children (abstract) PRESENTER: Eleftherios Vourkos |
| 12:10 | From Control to Strategy: Navigation Skill Emphases in FIRST LEGO League (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Content validation of an observation-based tool embedded in robotics workshops to support early alert of learning difficulties in primary school children (abstract) PRESENTER: Macarena-Paz Celume |
13:50-15:00 Session 1.3, Track A: Off Topic?
Chair:
| 13:50 | A LEGO-based Robotic Harmonograph for Visualising Lissajous Curves (abstract) PRESENTER: Attila Körei |
| 14:10 | Automated Task Analysis and Visual Robot Programming for Education of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Educational Robotics in Rural Education: The Impact of Insect-Inspired Robot Competitions in a Quasi-Experimental Study (abstract) PRESENTER: Adriana Cundar Ruano |
13:50-15:00 Session 1.3, Track B: Audiences
Chair:
| 13:50 | From Novice to Practitioner in Two Weeks: A Qualitative Study of Intensive Industrial Robotics Education (abstract) PRESENTER: Haris Mashood |
| 14:10 | One Workshop, Three Contexts: Assessing Advanced Software Robotics Training across General, Professional, and Academic Audiences (abstract) PRESENTER: Jorge Beltrán |
| 14:30 | EduRob: Teaching Mobile Robots at Universities (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Heß |
15:10-16:20 Session 1.4: Remote Robotics Education
Chair:
| 15:10 | RoboEdu: A Remote Robotics Education Environment for Learning ROS 2 (abstract) PRESENTER: Md Sajib Pramanic |
| 15:20 | Telepresence Robot-Mediated Teaching in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Student Perceptions Across Two Cohorts (abstract) PRESENTER: Tiina Kasuk |
| 15:40 | Global Virtual Classroom for Robotics (abstract) PRESENTER: Beate Baltes |
| 16:00 | Evaluating Student Engagement in Telepresence-Based Remote Teaching (abstract) PRESENTER: Aleksei Talisainen |
Thursday, April 16th
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09:50-11:20 Session 2.1, Track A: Competitions & Challenges
Chair:
| 09:50 | From Competition to Classroom and Back: Integrating robotics competitions into university robotics education (abstract) PRESENTER: Aron Lapp |
| 10:10 | Unpacking Problem-Solving Strategies of Proficient Teams in the Robotics Competition (abstract) PRESENTER: Kavi Arya |
| 10:30 | Aerial Robotics with AI Vision: Promoting Engineering through STEAM Challenges (abstract) PRESENTER: Martha Ivon Cardenas |
| 10:50 | A Crossed Arm Voxel Network for Humanoid Robot-Human Interaction in Magic Performances (abstract) PRESENTER: Jacky Baltes |
09:50-11:20 Session 2.1, Track B: Frameworks
Chair:
| 09:50 | Intelligent Tutoring System at Unibotics web framework for teaching robotics engineering (abstract) PRESENTER: José-María Cañas-Plaza |
| 10:10 | Learning with pyCub: A Simulation and Exercise Framework for Humanoid Robotics (abstract) PRESENTER: Lukas Rustler |
| 10:30 | A Generic Reinforcement Learning Framework to Map Human to Robot Motions (abstract) PRESENTER: Xuzhe Dang |
| 10:50 | Teaching AI to Middle School Students: A Qualitative Analysis of Hands-On Robotics Workshops (abstract) PRESENTER: Clément Lavenu |
11:30-13:00 Session 2.2, Track A: Projects
Chair:
| 11:30 | Bots and Blocks: Presenting a project-based approach for robotics education (abstract) PRESENTER: Tobias Geger |
| 11:40 | From Assembly to Engagement: Improving Open-Source Robots to Inspire Early STEM Interest (abstract) PRESENTER: Mark Suppelt |
| 12:00 | Coordinated Swarm of Drones in Indoor Environment (abstract) PRESENTER: Pavel Petrovič |
| 12:10 | Rusty Flying Robots: Learning a Full Robotics Stack with Real-Time Operation on an STM32 Microcontroller in a 9 ECTS MS Course (abstract) PRESENTER: Christoph Scherer |
| 12:20 | Flying Robotic Systems (LRS) at STU FEI: Integrating Simulation, ROS2, and High-Precision Laboratory Testing (abstract) PRESENTER: Maroš Kocúr |
| 12:30 | Robotics and Robots: A Paradigm-based MOOC Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Robotics Education (abstract) PRESENTER: Mario Selvaggio |
11:30-13:00 Session 2.2, Track B: Platforms
Chair:
| 11:30 | Teaching Computer Vision for Robotics in Higher Education with Unibotics Web Platform (abstract) PRESENTER: Jose María Cañas |
| 11:40 | Smart Cameras for Educational Robots (abstract) PRESENTER: Richard Balogh |
| 12:00 | Emio: A New reconfigurable parallel continuum platform for sharing, teaching and hands-on activities on soft robotics (abstract) PRESENTER: Manuela Otti |
| 12:20 | Pico4Drive: A novel development board customized for small robot prototyping (abstract) PRESENTER: José Gonçalves |
14:00-14:30 Session Messages: Messages and Teasers
Chair:
| 14:00 | STEM Education Initiatives of the Teacher Education Institution: An Institutional model (abstract) PRESENTER: Jwala Thomas |
| 14:09 | Low-Cost WiFi-Controlled Educational Robot Boat for Teaching Embedded Systems (abstract) PRESENTER: Michal Hodoň |
| 14:18 | On the Multidisciplinary Process in Robotics in Precision Agriculture (abstract) PRESENTER: Uzi Rosen |
Friday, April 17th
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09:50-11:20 Session 3.1, Track A: Machine Learning
Chair:
| 09:50 | Introducing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learn-ing in Primary Education: An experience with Nezha, Smart AI Lens, and Teachable Machine (abstract) PRESENTER: José-Manuel Sáez-López |
| 10:00 | Teaching Machine Learning Fundamentals with LEGO Robotics (abstract) PRESENTER: Viacheslav Sydora |
| 10:10 | Introducing Machine Learning to Middle-school students with Edge-AI in an educational robot (abstract) PRESENTER: Laura Cesaro |
| 10:30 | Hands-on Robotics and AI: A School-Integrated Internship (abstract) PRESENTER: Bastian Schindler |
| 10:50 | Integrating Institutional AI in Higher Education: A Case Study for First-Year Students. (abstract) PRESENTER: Richard Balogh |
09:50-11:20 Session 3.1, Track B: Assessment
Chair:
| 09:50 | Assessment for Learning, Quality Interactions, Feedback and Educational Robots (abstract) |
| 10:10 | From Sensors to Optimization: Evaluating a Progressive AI-Robotics Curriculum for Vocational Education (abstract) PRESENTER: Raidell Avello-Martínez |
| 10:30 | A Chronological Assessment of Educational Robotics Research in Pre-Kindergarten Settings: Advancing Early Literacy and Numeracy Skills Through STEM (abstract) PRESENTER: Fredrick Hicks |
| 10:50 | Introducing Robotics with a Cobot Digital Twin: Evaluation of a teaching unit for secondary education in pilot status. (abstract) PRESENTER: Marcus Kotte |
11:30-12:40 Session 3.2, Track A: Course Design
Chair:
| 11:30 | Developing a Flipped, Interactive Mobile Robotics Course for Computer Science Students (abstract) |
| 11:50 | Construction-Based Robotics-The Next Generation- Learning From the Past to Support Future Success in the Elementary Robotics Classroom (abstract) PRESENTER: Stephie Holmquist |
| 12:10 | Integration of Robotics Education in Non-Robotics Curricula (abstract) PRESENTER: Jens Lüssem |
| 12:20 | The Reverse-Tech Ladder: A Planned Descent Through Robotics Platform Abstraction to Balance Access, Motivation, and Technical Depth (abstract) PRESENTER: Serhii Batarchuk |
11:30-12:40 Session 3.2, Track B: Going Beyond
Chair:
| 11:30 | What Do Teachers Need? A Mixed-Methods Study on Robotics and AI Integration in European Secondary Schools (abstract) PRESENTER: Martin Kandlhofer |
| 11:50 | Integrating Space-Themed Educational Robotics into National Secondary Schools STEM Outreach: The ARCSSTE-E Experience (abstract) PRESENTER: Samuel Anih |
| 12:10 | μ-Learn: A Lightweight, On-Device Machine Learning Library for Educational Robotics Platforms (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Fusaro |
13:40-14:40 Session 3.3: Human-Robot Interaction
Chair:
| 13:40 | Mobile Robotic Device with Human-Robot Interaction Based on Monocular Vision, Ultrasound, and Godot Engine (abstract) PRESENTER: Sofia Heisenberg Lima Veloso |
| 14:00 | Welcome to the Machine: Experiences From a Hands-On HRI Course (abstract) PRESENTER: Jakob Suchan |
| 14:10 | Anticipating breakdowns with Kaspar: can children predict potential problems when interacting with a humanoid social robot? (abstract) PRESENTER: Sílvia Moros |
| 14:30 | Toward a Didactic Framework on Scientific Teaching in HRI: The Scientific HRI Didactic Framework (SHRI-DiF) (abstract) PRESENTER: Barbara Kühnlenz |