Technology has always represented the key to human progress. It is believed that the use of supportive technological mediators can facilitate teaching/learning processes and enable everyone to learn how to critically manage technology without being its slave or passive user while contributing to the collective well-being. Educational robotics is a new frontier for learning that can offer numerous benefits to students. The use of robots can offer the possibility of creating inclusive educational settings in which all students, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, can participate meaningfully. The article proposes an analysis of the evidence obtained from a systematic literature review with reference to general educational robotics and social robotics for emotion recognition. Finally, as a practical implementation of an educational robotic intervention on emotion recognition, the “Emorobot Project” as part of the EU-funded “Ecosystem of Innovation—Technopole of Rome” Project in NextGenerationEU will be presented. The project’s aim is to foster the development of social skills in children with autism spectrum disorders through the creation of an open-source social robot that can recognize emotions. The project is intended to provide teachers with a supportive tool that allows them to design individual activities and later extend the activity to classmates. An educational robot can be used as a social mediator, a playmate during the learning phase that can help students develop social skills, build peer connection, reduce social isolation—one of the main difficulties of this disorder—and foster motivation and the acquisition of interpersonal skills through interaction and imitation. This can help ensure that all students have access to quality education and that no one is left behind.

Volleyball is a sport of situation classified among the activities with an alternate aerobic-anaerobic commitment, which requires a high use of large muscular masses, with an accentuated prevalence of the anaerobic alactacid metabolism. The purpose of this work is to analyze and evaluate the correlations between the various variables of an anthropometric and functional nature, studied by testing a population of high-level volleyball players (Under 20 elite), subdividing them according to the role it occupied inside the group. The study was carried out on 42 volleyball players divided into four groups. In all subjects the following anthropometric parameters were assessed: height, weight, body mass index (BMI), height with a stretched arm (AH1) and height with two extended arms (AH2). The indirect measurement of the explosive force was carried out with the Bosco method: squat jump (SJ), counter movement jump (CMJ), CMJ with the use of the arms (CMJas). The elevation and coordination skills were assessed with the Vertec test using the technical gesture of the attack (Vertec attack, VA) and the wall (Vertec wall, VW). Other data can be obtained by evaluating the results obtained by the difference between the measurement of the Vertec attack (VA) and the height with a stretched arm (AH1) and between that of the Vertec wall (VW) and the height with two outstretched arms (AH2). The results of the anthropometric parameters showed significant differences in height (F = 4.7; p <0.006), height with a stretched arm AH1 (F = 3.5; p <0.02) and height with two outstretched arms AH2 (F = 3.5; p <0.02). In the comparison by role we did not obtain any statistical significance regarding the Bosco test. A high correlation was found between the results of the anthropometric parameters and those of the Vertec. The results show that in high-level youth volleyball, the athletes' anthropometric profile is directly linked to variables that must be used for the selection of talents and for training planning.

Bodily communication skills and its incidence on female volleyball championship to enhance didactics

Which must be used for training planning and for the choice of players in setting up a team. Modern basketball, due to the increasing intensity of the game rhythm, increasingly engages the anaerobic alactacid component; it is above all for this reason that we need more and more powerful athletes, who are both fast and capable of high performance in jumps. This is the reason why assessment, training and continuous monitoring of jumping skills are a decisive aspect of performance.

Statistical study on bodily communication skills in volleyball to improve teaching methods

Video analysis applied to volleyball didactics to improve sport skills