Children´s Interactive Behavior and Strategy in a Multi-robots´ Collaborative Environment

To improve students´ interaction in a collaborative learning environment to complete their tasks is very critical for developing students´ social interaction. This study designed a system of Multi-robots to discuss processes of students´ collaborative strategies and behavioral interaction by controlling robots under different scenarios to complete the dice-pushing tasks. As a result, students developed three collaborative strategies: independent-control, mutual-control and coordinator-directed. Students with independent-control strategy spent most time completing the task and those with mutual-control strategy spent least time. Additionally students had more behavioral interaction in mutual-controlled strategy. Regarding to learn how to learn “collaborative learning”, mutual-control strategy was formed under the scenario without evenly distributed resources. Therefore it is suggested that in order to increase students´ interaction, the related collaborative activities could be designed based on this aspect.