The Effects of Dyadic vs Triadic Interaction on Children’s Cognitive and Affective Gains in Robot-Assisted Alphabet Learning

Zhansaule Telisheva, Aida Zhanatkyzy, Nurziya Oralbayeva, Aida Amirova, Arna Aimysheva, Anara Sandygulova

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Abstract

Robot-assisted language learning (RALL) is an emerging field of human-robot interaction to support language acquisition and literacy development with a social robot in multi-modal ways. As learning is an inherently social activity, the effectiveness of dyadic and triadic types of social interaction in RALL and child-robot interaction (CRI) needs to be investigated. In early literacy education, the Montessori method is a remarkable child-centered and collaborative learning approach. Bridging these two spaces, our work attempts to examine if the nature of social interaction, dyadic and triadic, affects children’s outcomes in an environment that adheres to the Montessori principles. To this end, we conducted a between-subject design experiment with 33 Kazakh children aged 6–8 to compare the effectiveness of learning Kazakh Latin in the dyadic and triadic conditions in a Moveable Alphabet learning scenario with a social robot. The analyses revealed mixed results for dyadic and triadic conditions in terms of cognitive gains, while emotional engagement was better in the triadic condition. We discuss these results in the perspective of key insights from the current study and implications for future research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Robotics - 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Proceedings
EditorsFilippo Cavallo, John-John Cabibihan, Laura Fiorini, Alessandra Sorrentino, Hongsheng He, Xiaorui Liu, Yoshio Matsumoto, Shuzhi Sam Ge
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages204-213
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783031246692
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022 - Florence, Italy
Duration: Dec 13 2022Dec 16 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13818 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period12/13/2212/16/22

Keywords

  • Child-robot interaction
  • dyadic
  • Montessori method
  • Multi-party interaction
  • One-to-one interaction
  • Robot-assisted alphabet learning
  • triadic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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