Social robot tutoring for child second language learning

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8089591
AutoresJames Kennedy (0000-0001-9335-0808, autor de correspondencia), Paul Baxter (0000-0002-7299-9234), Emmanuel Senft (0000-0001-7160-4352), Tony Belpaeme (0000-0001-5207-7745)
Año2016
Páginas231-238
Fecha de publicación2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
Revista2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI (CONFERENCE)
EditorialIEEE (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1109/hri.2016.7451757
OpenAlexW4246617988
ISBN9781467383707
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas34
Referencias citadas24

An increasing amount of research is being conducted to determine how a robot tutor should behave socially in educational interactions with children. Both human-human and human-robot interaction literature predicts an increase in learning with increased social availability of a tutor, where social availability has verbal and nonverbal components. Prior work has shown that greater availability in the nonverbal behaviour of a robot tutor has a positive impact on child learning. This paper presents a study with 67 children to explore how social aspects of a tutor robot's speech influences their perception of the robot and their language learning in an interaction. Children perceive the difference in social behaviour between `low' and `high' verbal availability conditions, and improve significantly between a pre- and a post-test in both conditions. A longer-term retention test taken the following week showed that the children had retained almost all of the information they had learnt. However, learning was not affected by which of the robot behaviours they had been exposed to. It is suggested that in this short-term interaction context, additional effort in developing social aspects of a robot's verbal behaviour may not return the desired positive impact on learning gains

Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Human–robot interaction · Mathematics education · Mobile robot · Nonverbal communication · Pedagogy · Perception · Robot · Robot control · Social learning · Social robot · TUTOR · AI in Service Interactions · Computer Science · Psychology · Social Robot Interaction and HRI · Speech and dialogue systems · Artificial Intelligence