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Learning with or from the Robot: Exploring Robot Roles in Educational Context with Children

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2016)

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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 child-robot 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.

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  1. School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

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

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Indiana, USA

    Arvin Agah

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    John-John Cabibihan

  3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Ayanna M. Howard

  4. Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University Carlos III de Madrid, madrid, Spain

    Miguel A. Salichs

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    Hongsheng He

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Tazhigaliyeva, N., Diyas, Y., Brakk, D., Aimambetov, Y., Sandygulova, A. (2016). Learning with or from the Robot: Exploring Robot Roles in Educational Context with Children. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_64

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