@inproceedings{c7966cef31be473fa1b2747f4eefaf75,
title = "{"}Should I answer what the atom feels?{"} Learning about forces in chemical bonding using ELI-chem simulation",
abstract = "We developed and explored four increasing levels of embodied interaction - animation, mouse, joy-stick and haptic - to support chemistry students in grasping the attraction-repulsion forces and energy changes involved in chemical bonding. These topics are difficult to grasp as there are no analogues from everyday life for both attractions and repulsions happening simultaneously. Our theoretical framework is based on embodied learning theory by relating conceptual learning to bodily experiences. The study uses quantitative and qualitative methods with 48 high-school students in a pretest-intervention-posttest design. Our findings show that there is an increase in students' conceptual understanding in all four levels of embodiment, with significant higher learning gain in the haptic condition. Additional differences in the higher embodied levels are higher resolution of the information accessed and described, more scientific descriptions of bonding, and multiple perspectives of the phenomenon.",
keywords = "Attraction/repulsion forces, Chemical bonding, Chemical energy, Embodied learning, Simulation",
author = "Zohar, {Asnat R.} and Levy, {Sharona T.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.; 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2018 ; Conference date: 19-06-2018 Through 22-06-2018",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1145/3202185.3210794",
language = "American English",
series = "IDC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children",
pages = "650--656",
booktitle = "IDC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children",
}
