Improving the attention span of elementary school children in mexico through a S4 technology platform

Abstract

Today’s education faces a powerful enemy: lack of interest from students, who, even when attending class, find themselves distracted. This enemy has been in our schools for a long time, where technology has made it worse. This investigation intends to turn technology back to our side by proposing the use of an assistive robot, proving that it is capable of attracting student’s attention and increasing their motivation for a Physical Education (PE) class. This paper demonstrates that for the use of this robot, the characteristics of a sensitive, sustainable, intelligent, and social service/product (S4 products) need to be covered. The obtained data was analyzed from both an engineering and a psychological background. This study concludes that the attention span of children improves while their motivation increases as a result of participating in a robot-assisted PE class.