RT journal article
T1 Coming Together: R&D and Children's Entertainment Company in Designing APPs for Learning Early Math
A1 Mera Cantillo, Carlos
A1 Ruiz, Gonzalo
A1 Aguilar Villagrán, Manuel
A1 Aragón Mendizábal, Estívaliz Lorena
A1 Delgado Casas, Cándida Inés
A1 Menacho Jiménez, María Inmaculada
A1 Marchena Consejero, Esperanza
A1 García Sedeño, Manuel Antonio
A1 Navarro Guzmán, Francisco José Ignacio
A2 Psicología
K1 APPs
K1 early math
K1 research transfer
K1 spin-off
K1 gamification
AB Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have an increasing influence on theway we interact, learn, and live. The increase in teaching and learning methodologiesthat are mediated by ICT in the field of education and in the domestic settingsencourages the design of new effective technological tools, supported by scientificresearch and development to improve student learning. The challenge psychology isfacing in the education field is to promote those technologies and make them availableto the education community. Technologies also would produce attractive items for usersand realistic commercial issues for businesses. This also allows an effective transferfor scientific work, providing visibility to Research and Development. In this context,the main aim of the article is to describe the process to get an agreement betweenBabyradio (a children’s entertainment company: https://babyradio.es/) and our researchteam, starting a collaborative work between two groups of people (Babyradio’s technicaldesigner and Psychologist-Engineers software designer), in order to create severaleducative applications (APPs) in the field of early mathematics cognition. The institutionalframework of the relationship of the R&D project and a children’s entertainment companyis described. The article also focuses on experience in Psychology, TechnologicalInnovation, and Entrepreneurship. In considering the efficiency of the agreement, wepresent different APPs designed for tablets and smartphone devices, adapted to thedifferent operating systems (IOS, Android, Windows). APPs are designed to instillthe cognitive fundamentals associated with early math learning for students aged 4to 7 years. The study developed after this babyradio-university enterprise agreementcontributes to the development of mathematics skills in children, aged 4–7 years, so thatthey can successfully meet the mathematics school requirements; it also contributes toencouraging a more positive attitude toward mathematics. This study also suggests howthe education system and software and educational content developers’ companieswould manage verified instructional APPs, with a more realistic commercial perspective.
PB FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
SN 1664-1078
YR 2019
FD 2019-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21388
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21388
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026