Track description and topics of interest

Toy, robot and game technologies have attracted learners’ attention, since they provide highly interactive and immersive learning experiences. Therefore, several researchers have adopted them in their teaching processes for better learning outcomes (in STEAM, language learning, etc.) and to foster collaborative learning tasks. Additionally, the rapid advance of emerging technologies have reshaped the ways of designing toys, robots and games in education, as well as their objectives. For instance, mobile and VR/AR technologies are now making game-based learning immersive by merging both the virtual and the physical learning environment together. Further, Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made game-based learning intelligent by designing personalized learning-playing experiences according to learners’ individual differences and profiles. Not only that, but in addition to learning, game-based learning is now being used to overcome the limitations of traditional surveys and provide new ways of implicitly assessing learners’ skills, individual differences and knowledge based on their generated massive gaming interactions. Besides, to make traditional learning environments as highly engaging as games, researchers have tried to make these learning environments gamified (i.e., look like games) by redesigning, and implementing various game elements (e.g., points, badges, leaderboard, virtual item and currency, achievements, etc.) into existing learning, educational, teaching and assessment systems.

This track aims at providing researchers a platform to share and discuss innovative and advanced design, learning and assessment technologies utilizing toys, robots, and games. It welcomes submissions in topics including, but not limited to:

Track Program Committee

Maiga CHANG, Athabasca University, Canada

Baltasar FERNADEZ-MANJON, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Isabela GASPARINI, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil

Ahmed TLILI, Beijng Normal University, China

Jenilyn AGAPITO, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

Veljko ALEKSIĆ, University of Kragujevac, Serbia

Ig Ibert BITTENCOURT, Federal University of Alagoas , Brazil

Emmanuel BLANCHARD, IDÛ Interactive Inc, Canada

Gabriella CALVANO, University of Bari, Italy

Antonio CALVO-MORATA, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Rong-Chi CHANG, Taiwan Police College, Taiwan

Zhi-Hong CHEN, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Chu Yu CHENG, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Chih-Ming CHU, National Ilan University, Taiwan

Alexandra CRISTEA, Durham University, USA

Ibtissem DAOUDI, National school of computer science in Tunisia, Tunisia

Elaine H. T. DE OLIVEIRA, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil

Diego DERMEVAL, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil

M Ali Akber DEWAN, Athabasca University, Canada

Rafael DIAS ARAÚJO, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil

Pedro Henrique DIAS VALLE, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Victoria EYHARABIDE, Sorbonne University, France

Manuel FREIRE, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Bob HELLER, Athabasca University, Canada

Jon-Chao HONG, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Marcelo Da Silva HOUNSELL, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Shu-Hsien HUANG, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan

Hazra IMRAN, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Seiji ISOTANI, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Hi-Lian JENG, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Morris S. Y. JONG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Avanilde KEMCZINSKI, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Rita KUO, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA

Chia-Hung LAI, National Cheng Kung Univeristy, Taiwan

Chang-Hsin LIN, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

Eleandro MASCHIO, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil

Guilherme MEDEIROS MACHADO, University of Lorraine, France

Evandro Manara MILETTO, Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Hiroyuki MITSUHARA, Tokushima University, Japan

Fabio OKUYAMA, Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – Campus Porto Alegre, Brazil

José PALAZZO, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Roberto PEREIRA, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Taciana PONTUAL FALCAO, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Tiago PRIMO, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

Michal PTASZYNSKI, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan

Ashutosh RAINA, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Helena REIS, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Rachel REIS, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil

Mª. Mercedes T. RODRIGO, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

Guillermo RODRIGUEZ, ISISTAN (CONICET – UNCPBA), Argentina

Veronica ROSSANO, University of Bari, Italy

Luciana SALGADO, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Silvia SCHIAFFINO, ISISTAN (CONICET – UNCPBA), Argentina

Karim SEHABA, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

Chun-Yi SHEN, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Milene SILVEIRA, PUCRS – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Lakshmi T G, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Faiza TAHIR, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Wernhuar TARNG, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Ming Hsin TSAI, Asia University, Taiwan

Li WANG, The Open University of China, China

Ssu-Hsiang WANG, MingDao University, Taiwan

Leandro Krug WIVES, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Seng Yue WONG, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Wing-Kwong WONG, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, China

Jianhua WU, Central China Normal University, China

Sheng-Kai YIN, Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan

Yan YU, Tianjin Normal University, China