title: New frontiers for psychology and education: robotics.
abstract: The paper reviews the first attempts to study the educational and psychological usefulness of robotics: (1) the social and cooperative dimensions involved in the robot-building activities; (2) the reasoning strategies implied in building and programming robots; (3) the influences of robotics on mathematical and scientific achievement; (4) the use of robotics in modification of social skills of autistic children.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Caci
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: D'Amico
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cardaci
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D011340:Problem Solving; D011588:Psychology, Educational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012371:Robotics / Q000639:trends*; D012919:Social Behavior; D012984:Software