Learning with or from the robot: Exploring robot roles in educational context with children

Nazgul Tazhigaliyeva, Yerassyl Diyas, Dmitriy Brakk, Yernar Aimambetov, Anara Sandygulova

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Abstract

The goal of this ongoing research is to examine the feasibility of using a social humanoid robot to teach children the basics of programming. We focus on exploring robot’s adaptive strategies in order to facilitate both effective educational applications and engaging childrobot interaction. In this paper we present our preliminary work, which explores robot’s social roles (peer versus teacher) and their effect on learning. The child needs to learn the basics of programming in order to walk the robot through the maze via drag-and-drop instructions on the tablet screen. The findings suggest that children complete the task much quicker with the peer robot while a teacher robot is shown to be more effective for learning.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Robotics - 8th International Conference, ICSR 2016, Proceedings
EditorsArvin Agah, Miguel A. Salichs, Hongsheng He, John-John Cabibihan, Ayanna M. Howard
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages650-659
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319474366
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016 - Kansas City, United States
Duration: Nov 1 2016Nov 3 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9979 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKansas City
Period11/1/1611/3/16

Keywords

  • Child-robot interaction (cHRI)
  • Educational robotics
  • Human-robot interaction (HRI)
  • Peer versus teacher robot

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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