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Tití App, an Interactive Psycho-Pedagogical Recovery Tool: A Pilot Study

2022 , Gordón J. , Caicedo, Andrés , Subia Arellano, Andrés

The acquisition of reading and writing is a complex and decisive process for the knowledge appropriation of children and their culturalization; similarly, the number of children who do not achieve the expected literacy level for their age and schooling is also a matter of concern. One of the explanations lies in the learning situation, which regularly develops in a classroom. Nowadays, the incorporation of new technologies that include smartphones and tablets as learning-enhancing resources is crucial. Due to the absence of contextualized tools for the Ecuadorian population, Tití application is proposed. It is focused on reducing the errors in children’s reading by solving tasks that are based on the errors determined in the literacy analysis test, TALE, in a contextualized and motivating digital scenario. The user-centered design is the basis for the construction of this tool with characteristics that are specific to Ecuador such as the use of the Spanish language in an Ecuadorian context, navigation on a map of Ecuador, and rescue of endangered endemic animals. This allows children to identify with their environment and engage in the dynamics of the tool. In the research, a repeated measures study design was applied to assess statistically significant differences between a first and second evaluation. A marked decrease in the number of errors in the elements of the TALE test can be observed. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

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Design of the Attitudinal Assessment Scale Towards Artificial Intelligence (EVAIA-1)

2023 , Subia Arellano, Andrés , Pérez-Vega D. , Guillen-Garcia S. , Cáceres-Fierro N.

In recent years, the exponential growth of artificial intelligence as a technological tool at the service of human beings has led to an ethical debate about its future implication. The existing instruments to evaluate attitudes towards artificial intelligence have non-specific dimensions and are designed for populations different from the Spanish-speaking. In this sense, it is necessary to have valid, reliable, and contextualized tools to evaluate people's attitudes toward the use of artificial intelligence. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop an attitudinal rating scale for artificial intelligence. There were 604 volunteer participants between 18 and 55 years of age, 311 men and 293 women. Bartlett's test of sphericity showed a significant result (approximate chi-square = 1502. 7862387833S;p <.001), and the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test of sample adequacy showed an index of.825. With this, it was considered feasible to factorize the data matrix, and thanks to the factor analysis, three components explain 52.76% of the total rotated variance. In addition, a high internal consistency index was obtained for the 12 items of the inventory (0.768). These findings indicate that the EVAIA-I is a valid and reliable tool to evaluate the attitude towards artificial intelligence in Ecuador and other Latin American countries. © 2023 IEEE.