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In order for robots to be part of the education field, it is necessary to take into consideration the perception students have of them and of education in general. The aim of this study is to assess whether the role a robot plays in a classroom affects knowledge retrieval, subjective experience, and the perception of the learners. To investigate this, we developed an educational scenario and three questionnaires. The results show significant differences in the way the subjects perceived the robot as a tutor.
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Blancas, M., Vouloutsi, V., Grechuta, K., Verschure, P.F.M.J. (2015). Effects of the Robot’s Role on Human-Robot Interaction in an Educational Scenario. In: Wilson, S., Verschure, P., Mura, A., Prescott, T. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9222. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22979-9_39
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