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This research project proposes the use of Child-Robot Interaction principles to boost the interest and engagement of young children in the biodiversity curriculum. We propose an architecture where a robot learns from children through an Interactive Story, while at the same time teaches them previous knowledge acquired in past interactions.
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We note that the architecture can equally be used for similar interactions on other topics, simply replacing the subject of the interaction.
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The authors would like to thank Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento e Tecnologia (ARDITI) - M1420-09-5369-000001, for a PhD grant to the first author. This work was also supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - UID/CEC/50021/2013.
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Ferreira, M.J., Nisi, V., Melo, F., Paiva, A. (2017). Learning and Teaching Biodiversity Through a Storyteller Robot. In: Nunes, N., Oakley, I., Nisi, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71027-3_45
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