Eun-Ja Hyun
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23
Total Citations
386
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About
Eun-Ja Hyun is a pioneering early childhood education researcher whose work sits at the dynamic intersection of emerging technology and young children's learning and development. She has built a distinguished body of scholarship focused on three interconnected domains: educational robotics, augmented reality in early childhood settings, and language development through technology-mediated instruction. Hyun's most influential contribution — her 2015 study on children's perceptions of augmented reality-infused dramatic play, which has garnered 146 citations — helped establish the educational legitimacy of immersive technologies in early childhood classrooms. Her extensive work with the intelligent robot iRobiQ represents a particularly significant thread in her research, demonstrating through multiple studies that robotic platforms can serve as effective, interactive language instruction tools for typically developing children as well as those with speech-language disorders. Notably, Hyun extended her inquiries beyond borders, conducting cross-cultural analyses comparing how children and parents in Korea, Japan, and Spain respond to tutoring robots — revealing how cultural context shapes technology acceptance. Her Delphi surveys and development studies further demonstrate her commitment to both rigorous evaluation and practical application. Collectively accumulating nearly 330 citations, her work has meaningfully advanced how educators and technologists think about designing child-centered, robot-enhanced learning environments.
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- 3The Intelligent Robot Contents for Children with Speech-Language Disorder29 citations · 2015
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