Laila El Hamamsy
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Laila El Hamamsy is a researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, educational technology, and collaborative learning. Her work explores how social robots can be meaningfully integrated into pedagogical settings to enhance children's learning experiences. One of her most notable contributions is the CoWriter activity, an innovative multi-party learning framework in which groups of children simultaneously tutor a Nao robot in handwriting. Published in 2019 and accumulating 19 citations, this work creatively combines two powerful educational principles — collaborative learning and the "learning by teaching" paradigm — to motivate and engage young learners. By positioning children as teachers rather than students, El Hamamsy's research leverages the protégé effect, encouraging deeper cognitive engagement and improved skill development. Her approach is distinguished by its emphasis on designing activities that are not only educationally grounded but also socially dynamic, moving beyond single-user robot interactions toward richer, group-based experiences. El Hamamsy's contributions speak to a growing need to make educational robotics both inclusive and scalable, offering a compelling model for researchers and educators seeking to harness the motivational power of child-robot interaction in real classroom environments.
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