Marleny Luque Carbajal
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About
Marleny Luque Carbajal is a researcher at the forefront of socioenactive systems and human-computer interaction, with a particular focus on how young children learn and create through embodied, tangible technologies. Her work bridges cognitive science, education, and interaction design, exploring how collaborative meaning construction emerges when children engage with programmable robots and tangible interfaces. Carbajal’s most cited study (17 citations) investigates how children co-construct understanding in socioenactive environments using the mBot robot, revealing the dynamic interplay between social interaction, physical action, and digital feedback. She has also pioneered the design and evaluation of the “TaPrEC+mBot” environment, a tangible programming system that helps preschoolers develop cognitive and socio-emotional skills through hands-on coding activities. Her multimodal analyses of children’s embodied interactions (2–6 citations) provide novel insights into how gesture, movement, and speech combine to support learning. By demonstrating that tangible, collaborative environments can foster creativity and computational thinking in early childhood, Carbajal is shaping the future of educational technology and contributing to a deeper understanding of enactive cognition in real-world learning contexts.
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