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Inclusive Learning

A Humanoid Robot as a Language Tutor

We are looking for a way to make use of Nao robot in learning Finnish as a L2. The pedagogical background of our experiment is based on Curran's Community Language Learning method and its Finnish application called ‘Toisto’ (‘Repeat’). We approach …

A Persuasive Storyteller Robot: Pilot Study

Scientific research has proven that Storytelling scenarios are a powerful form of learning, knowledge sharing and persuasion. The Storytelling technique is widely applied because stories have a great power to influence the person in an emotional way …

Comparing L2 Word Learning through a Tablet or Real Objects: What Benefits Learning Most?

In child-robot interactions focused on language learning, tablets are often used to structure the interaction between the robot and the child. However, it is not clear how tablets affect children’s learning gains. Real-life objects are thought to …

Exploring the Effect of Gestures and Adaptive Tutoring on Children’s Comprehension of L2 Vocabularies

The L2TOR project explores the use of social robots for second language tutoring. This paper presents an experiment in preparation to investigate the effects of two educational scaffolding features (adaptation/personalization and iconic gestures), …

Has Uncanny Valley Feeling an Impact on Learning: A preliminary Experiment performed in a French Elementary School

In order to test the eventual impact of uncanny feeling, as theorized by the Mori’s concept of uncanny valley, on learning, we proposed to a class of 26 pupils of mean age 8 years 5 months to visualize The Polar Express and Dark Crystal movies and to …

ProCRob Architecture for Personalized Social Robotics

For robot tutors, autonomy and personalizations are important factors in order to engage users as well as to personalize the content and interaction according to the needs of individuals. This paper presents the Programming Cognitive Robot (ProCRob) …

Robot-Based Learning Design for Young Children

There is a worldwide need for tools to assist young children who learn English as a second language (ESL). The authors have been implementing two approaches to designing robot/child interaction activities for ESL children : one-on-one learning in …

Teaching Assistant Robot Development by PRINTEPS

PRINTEPS (Practical INTEligent aPplicationS) is a total intelligent application development platform that integrates 5 types of sub systems (knowledge-based reasoning, speech dialog, image sensing, manipulation and machine learning). This paper shows …

Towards Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Adaptive and Personalized Cognitive Training

There is a growing body of multidisciplinary research on how robotic systems can be deployed in education and training by providing personalized tutoring session to the user. Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) is an efficient tool for educational and …