Blue Bot Project Experiment

Julian Alvarez (1) , Katell Bellegarde (2) , Jean-Jacques Flahaut (3) , Thierry Lafouge (4)

1 DeVisu - Laboratoire en Design Visuel et Urbain - EA 2445
2 CIREL - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Education de Lille - ULR 4354
3 Université Lille Nord de France (COMUE)
4 ELICO - Equipe de recherche de Lyon en sciences de l'information et de la communication

This paper presents preliminary statistical results of the "Blue Bot research" conducted in 2017. It is a comparative study dedicated to introduce robotics and computer science to children of 5 years old, in their final year at kindergarten. The experiment was carried out in 35 classrooms from Hauts-de-France (North of France). The serious gaming activity proposed three different modalities: the body, the robot and digital tablet. We will present the first results of the various pre-and post-test studies carried out during the experimentation.

Keywords: toy; serious Game; coding; serious gaming; game; experiment; kindergarten; comparative study; pedagogy; robot

Domains: Methods and statistics

Julian Alvarez, Katell Bellegarde, Jean-Jacques Flahaut, Thierry Lafouge. Blue Bot Project Experiment: First Statistical Results of the Performance of 5-year-olds Pupils on their Ability to Program. 8th International Toy Research Association World Conference, International Toy Research Association (ITRA), Jul 2018, Paris, France. ⟨hal-02090864⟩