• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2015

Educational learning methods that take advantage of a robot provide opportunities for students to develop high dimensional thinking, a creative expression and discovery learning opportunity. It is also perceived as a suitable tool for STEAM systems which can be used in a variety of school curriculums. Therefore we designed and developed STEAM educational contents using robots in this study. This study analyze elementary text books and design the convergence contents from various subjects such as math, science, engineering and art through a robot. This study has developed educational materials by making a robot based on the designed contents. They have been applied to after school materials and then evaluated for comprehension, interest and participation. The results of this study have shown very encouraging evaluations from participating students. Accordingly, this study has shown that STEAM contents that take advantage of a robot have improved student participation, interests, and comprehension in the curriculums. Additionally, integrating STEAM educational content has proved more effective in contrast to being separated.

• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.89-94
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• 2010

This paper proposes an educational robot game framework for novice students in k-12 to learn concepts of programming through interesting experiences. It is designed to be able to enjoy robot games without technical knowledge of robotics and programming. For this, in the proposed robot game framework, educational robots based on line-tracer are used and the programming APls that can be used for various educational programming languages are offered. And the proposed robot game framework also offers a game board to create several games with easy operations. Additionally, through experiments, it shows that novice students are able to create different games that have several game solutions for various programming using this robot game framework.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.33-44
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• 2009

In this study, we selected an educational robot as a suitable tool to support algorithm learning for middle school learners through comparative analysis of various tools. Educational robot can provide tangible experiences for abstract concepts of algorithms. Therefore, we developed an algorithm learning program with educational robots to enhance intrinsic motivation and creative problem solving ability for middle school learners. Also, we implemented the developed program in middle schools and analysed the educational effects of the program. We found that the algorithm learning program with robots was helpful in enhancing learners' intrinsic motivation about algorithm learning and creative problem solving potential. These findings may offer useful direction for designing teaching and learning program for algorithm education. These results can be used as a basis for study on designing and developing algorithm learning program.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.403-405
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 인간과 서비스 로봇과의 상호작용에 필요한 동작의 학습을 위한 방법으로 모방학습을 활용한다. 로봇을 모방학습 시키기 위해서는 모방학습을 위한 특정한 구조가 필요하다. 따라서 선행자가 로봇을 직접 움직여 생성한 모방학습 데이터를 저장하고, 그 데이터를 학습알고리즘에 적용시킨 뒤 로봇이 학습 내용을 수행하도록 하는 모방학습 프레임워크를 제안한다. 모방학습 프레임워크의 프로그래밍은 본 연구에서 사용하는 휴머노이드 로봇인 나오에서 제공하는 그래픽기반 환경 개발도구인 콜레그래프를 활용한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.499-508
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• 2014

Developing Computational Thinking is getting attention as the importance of SW is emphasized. Also programming education is getting attention, especially, various researches that utilize robot in programming education are being carried out. This study focused on compensating the defects of the prior robot programming education and exploring the way of utilizing web based tool 2.0 while putting emphasis on communication and cooperation. This plan is based on $Gagn{\acute{e}}$ & Briggs nine events of instruction and can be used to implement cooperative learning with the Web 2.0 based tools at every instructional events. Tests for learner's cooperation were done before and after this new plan to evaluate its value. The result proves that this plan had a positive influence on improving learner's cooperative attitude.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.127-134
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• 2008

An autonomous reconnaissance ground robot performs its duty in various different environments such as mountain-scape, desert and under-water through changing its shape and form according to the environment it is working in. Making a prototype robot for each environment requires extra cost and time. It is also difficult to modify the problem after production. In this paper, we propose the adoption of M&S(Modeling & Simulation) environment for the production and design of the autonomous reconnaissance ground robot. The proposed method on the M&S environment contributed to the more effective and less time consuming production of the robot through the Pre-Modeling and Pre-Simulation process. For example, we showed the design and implementation of the autonomous reconnaissance ground robot under the proposed environment and tools.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1126-1130
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• 2010

Research on intelligent robot is in active progress as the next generation IT education area. Since intelligent robots are closely related to the real human world, they should provide human behaviors or judging ability as their functions. For this reason, research is recently done not only on diverse hardware of robot education but also on service component architecture which includes various functions. In this paper we propose a study on learning to creative solve problems using RDS(Robotics Developer Studio). RDS is a software tool to control or program intelligence robot as a software module. Using service component framework which considers standardization of the integrated development of intelligent robot, we expect to provide 3-dimensional visual simulation environment, and save time and costs in education the environment for the intelligence robot experiment.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2010

Robots have been recognized as effective tools to promote high level thinking such as creativeness and problem solving that are crucial in Intelligence & Information era. However, robot education in Korea is more concerned with assembling, traveling and programing, while robot education in foreign countries are incorporated with educational courses, being utilized in various ways. Essentially, robot is a multifunctioning device of planning, assembling, operation and problem solving. As it is able to provide practical educational experience, it will positively influence in motivation and accomplishment if being incorporated with educational courses. Therefore, this study compared domestic and foreign robot education cases, while establishing the framework of course incorporated robot education based on analysis of robot mechanism, the 7th curriculum and its activities. We developed robot utilizing educational program by each grade and subject. In addition, this program is reviewed by experts to verify its adequateness, reality and usefulness based on which it was revised and supplemented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.616-618
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• 2005

본 논문은 적외선 리모트 컨트롤러로 제어가 가능한 가정용 소형 로봇인 $Robosapien^{TM}$을 홈 네트워크 제어를 위한 홈 서버를 통해 직접 제어할 수 있는 제어 소프트웨어를 개발하였다. 또한 $Robosapien^{TM}$의 연속적인 동작을 쉽게 프로그래밍하고 실행시킬 수 인터프리터 (interpreter)의 세부 구현내용을 기술하였다. 본 구현은 컴퓨터 프로그래밍의 개념 정립이 부족한 일반 사용자나 컴퓨터 프로그밍에 관심이 많은 학생들이 쉽게 프로그래밍 할 수 있는 비주얼 프로그래밍 도구를 개발하였다. 특히 구현 시 필요한 구성 요소 및 기능을 설계하고 사용자의 편의성을 고려한 편리한 GUI(Graphical User Interface)의 구현에 중점을 두었다. 본 비주얼 프로그래밍 도구는 가정의 데스크톱 PC뿐만 아니라, 실외에서 PDA와 같은 소형 이동단말기를 이용하여 원격으로 가정의 홈 서버에 접속하여 $Robosapien^{TM}$의 동작을 실시간으로 제어할 수 있으며 가정의 웹 카메라를 통하여 $Robosapien^{TM}$이 정확하게 동작하고 있는지를 원격으로 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.277-285
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• 2011

This research examines the effect of robots for improving creativity in elementary art classes. A creative art program with robot was developed based on research of robots and their effects on creativity, and an elementary art curriculum analysis. The program ran for 16 class periods. In this research, fifty seven 4th grade students participated, and an analysis of covariance was carried out based on before and after creativity tests. The research result shows that students who used the robot program achieved a significant improvement in their creativity over students who did not use the robot program in art classes. It proves that robots can be effective tools for improving creativity in elementary art classes.