Building Interactions for Classroom Robots
In this paper I present a microanalytical sequential analysis of people's interactions with a small humanoid robot, in which they play a word formation game together. The analysis reveals two ways of engaging with the robot and suggests that …
This research explores the concept of edutainment where the basics of programming are introduced to children while playing a game with a social humanoid robot. The goal of the game is to exit the maze - the child is asked by the robot to make it walk …
This paper considers a science lesson given through mediation of the humanoid RoboThespian to groups of school students (grades 5-7) at the science museum MadaTech. The lesson included theoretical explanations, hands-on experiments, and a knowledge …
This paper presents a study in which learning interactions of novice engineering students with robot manipulators focus on training spatial skills. To support the interactions, we customized the robots' workspaces, designed virtual robotic cells, and …
Social robots are increasingly being applied in educational environments such as schools. It is important to understand the views of the general public as social acceptance will likely play a role in the adoption of such technology. Other literature …
That “practice makes perfect” is a powerful heuristic for improving performance through repetition. This is widely used in educational context, and as such provides a potentially useful feature for application to child-robot interactions in …