Technology and Gestaltism: A Robotic-Based Learning Aid Tool

Abstract

With the objective to seeking a new educational approach, in which to due students to be into active protagonists of their academic life, this paper presents the design of a robotic teaching tool that was conceived from the use of techniques of Gestalt Therapy, so as to be a playful instrument of verification of learning. The relevance of the study is due to the fact of the conception of this tool arised from the extraclass view of a group of students who contributed to the development using robotics as a form of tool belonging to its universe outside the classroom. Three sessions were carried out on the use of the tool in the students' class in order to test their playful characteristics and to ascertain the ability to help learning of non-technical subjects of the students who were involved in the development of the same.