{"287061":{"#nid":"287061","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Brown, Howard Win Best Paper Honors at IEEE STEM Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaVonda Brown and Ayanna Howard received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, held March 8 in Princeton, N.J.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir winning paper was entitled \u0022The Positive Effects of Verbal Encouragement in Mathematics Education Using a Social Robot.\u0022 Brown is a Ph.D. student in the Human-Automation Systems Lab, which is led by Howard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudies have shown that using verbal encouragement strategies in education helps to maximize learning. This idea is derived from traditional classroom settings where teachers use behavioral strategies to maintain student engagement. Motivated by these educational practices, Brown and Howard have examined using a Socially Interactive Robotic Tutor (SIRT) that incorporates a variety of verbal cues into multiple math learning scenarios.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their paper, Brown and Howard present the robotic tutor, the methods used to engage students in the learning scenario, and results from integrating the robotic tutor in the classroom environment. Results derived from 44 students engaging with SIRT during a tablet-based math test show that, when compared to non-interactive methods, verbal cues are able to increase and\/or maintain student engagement regardless of student age and math content level.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE\u0027s LaVonda Brown and Ayanna Howard received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, held March 8 in Princeton, N.J.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE\u0027s LaVonda Brown and Ayanna Howard received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference, held March 8 in Princeton, N.J."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2014-03-31 10:05:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"287111":{"id":"287111","type":"image","title":"LaVonda Brown and Ayanna Howard","body":null,"created":"1449244237","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:37","changed":"1475894981","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:41","alt":"LaVonda Brown and Ayanna Howard","file":{"fid":"199119","name":"ayanna_howard_and_lavonda_brown.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ayanna_howard_and_lavonda_brown_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ayanna_howard_and_lavonda_brown_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1205159,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ayanna_howard_and_lavonda_brown_0.jpg?itok=MioBqgSO"}}},"media_ids":["287111"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ewh.ieee.org\/conf\/stem\/","title":"IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/humanslab.ece.gatech.edu\/humanslab\/Home.html","title":"Human-Automation Systems Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"825","name":"Ayanna Howard"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"67281","name":"Human-Automation Systems Lab"},{"id":"90391","name":"IEEE Integrated STEM Conference"},{"id":"90381","name":"LaVonda Brown"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}