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Children learning with a social robot

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Takayuki Kanda,

Michihiro Shimada,

Satoshi KoizumiAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 351 - 358

https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157809

Published: 05 March 2012 Publication History

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We used a social robot as a teaching assistant in a class for children's collaborative learning. In the class, a group of 6th graders learned together using Lego Mindstorms. The class consisted of seven lessons with Robovie, a social robot, followed by one lesson to test their individual achievement. Robovie managed the class and explained how to use Lego Mindstorms. In addition to such basic management behaviors for the class, we prepared social behaviors for building relationships with the children and encouraging them. The result shows that the social behavior encouraged children to work more in the first two lessons, but did not affect them in later lessons. On the other hand, social behavior contributed to building relationships and attaining better social acceptance.

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HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction

March 2012

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DOI:10.1145/2157689

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