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Android robots that have a human-like appearance have been developed recently. We have been also developing an android-type communication robot SAYA equipped with the face robot that can express facial expressions. This paper shows an application of the android robot SAYA in educational fields as medium of a remote class support system. In this system, SAYA plays a role of a teacher, and the principle of leverage is adopted as a topic of science class for elementary school students. Moreover, we conducted the field trial at elementary schools to verify the effectiveness of the system. As a result, we confirmed its positive effects and possibility in elementary schools.
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Hashimoto, T., Kato, N., Kobayashi, H. (2010). Study on Educational Application of Android Robot SAYA: Field Trial and Evaluation at Elementary School. In: Liu, H., Ding, H., Xiong, Z., Zhu, X. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16587-0_47
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