B M Andrus
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B M Andrus investigates the intersection of developmental psychology, human-computer interaction, and collaborative learning, with a focus on how children and adults co-construct understanding through technology. Their most-cited work, "Symbolic Relations in Collaborative Coding: How Children and Parents Map Across Symbol Systems While Coding Robots" (2021), offers a nuanced interaction analysis of parent-child dyads programming a codable robot. By closely examining how families negotiate numerical values and symbolic representations during playful coding tasks, Andrus reveals the subtle cognitive and social processes underlying joint problem-solving. This research illuminates how children learn to map across multiple symbol systems—such as numbers, commands, and physical robot movements—through guided collaboration. Though early in their career, Andrus’s work has already garnered attention for its innovative methodological approach and its practical implications for designing educational technologies that support family learning. Their contributions are particularly valuable for researchers interested in embodied cognition, collaborative learning, and the design of inclusive computational activities that bridge formal and informal learning contexts.
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