Learning companion robots that support spoken natural language dialogue present exciting opportunities for adaptive and personalized interaction. We hypothesize that adaptive robot behaviors can have a positive effect on student motivation. …
Robotic patient simulators are the most commonly used robot in clinical education and provide low-risk, high-fidelity learning experiences. They are life-sized humanoid robots that can simulate human physiological responses. Commercially available …
ISEP-R0B0 is a project which combines a small programmable robot and a visual programming language. Its goal is to provide a full-fledged system at a very low cost, targeting schools but also informal learning situations such as after-class …
To broaden the adoption and be more inclusive, robotic tutors need to tailor their behaviours to their audience. Traditional approaches, such as Bayesian Knowledge Tracing, try to adapt the content of lessons or the difficulty of tasks to the current …
Establishing common ground when attempting to disambiguate spatial locations is difficult at the best of times, but is even more challenging between children and robots. Here, we present a study that examined how 94 children (aged 5-8) communicate …
Due to the high intensity and repetitiveness of the exercises, rehabilitation process may be frustrating for the patients and it may results with poor treatment results. One promising way to increase motivation to provide social support through …
Challenging math problems provide rich opportunities to cultivate perseverance to forge ahead in face of ambiguity or difficulty. An ideal teacher closely monitors the problem solving process and provides personalized cognitive, emotional or social …
In the present article, we investigate children's perceptions of a robot in a one-to-one 'learning-by-teaching' scenario where a robot acts as a 'learner' and a child as a 'tutor'. The child interacts with the robot in multiple-sessions. The robot …