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Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor

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Martin Saerbeck,

Christoph Bartneck,

Maddy D. JanseAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1613 - 1622

https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753567

Published: 10 April 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the interaction in a tutoring scenario as unidirectional knowledge transfer rather than a social dialog. Therefore, ongoing research aims to develop virtual agents as more appropriate media in education. Virtual agents can induce the perception of a life-like social interaction partner that communicates through natural modalities such as speech, gestures and emotional expressions. This effect can be additionally enhanced with a physical robotic embodiment.

This paper presents the development of social supportive behaviors for a robotic tutor to be used in a language learning application. The effect of these behaviors on the learning performance of students was evaluated. The results support that employing social supportive behavior increases learning efficiency of students.

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1. Human-centered computing
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    1. Interaction paradigms

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