Design specifications for a social robot math tutor

MEU Ligthart, SM De Droog, M Bossema… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
To benefit from the social capabilities of a robot math tutor, instead of being distracted by
them, a novel approach is needed where the math task and the robot's social behaviors are …

Back to School-Sustaining Recurring Child-Robot Educational Interactions After a Long Break

MEU Ligthart, SM De Droog, M Bossema… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Maintaining the child-robot relationship after a significant break, such as a holiday, is an
important step for developing sustainable social robots for education. We ran a four-session …

Designing Parent-child-robot Interactions to Facilitate In-Home Parental Math Talk with Young Children

HR Ho, NT White, EM Hubbard, B Mutlu - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Parent-child interaction is critical for child development, yet parents may need guidance in
some aspects of their engagement with their children. Current research on educational math …

Fostering learning gains through personalized robot-child tutoring interactions

A Ramachandran, B Scassellati - Proceedings of the tenth annual acm …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Social robots can be used to tutor children in one-on-one interactions. It would be most
beneficial for these robots to adapt their behavior to suit the individual learning needs of …

Heart vs hard drive: children learn more from a human tutor than a social robot

J Kennedy, P Baxter, E Senft… - 2016 11th ACM/IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is increasingly exploring the use of social robots
for educating children. Commonly, non-academic audiences will ask how robots compare to …

Understanding Rapport over Multiple Sessions with a Social, Teachable Robot

X Tian, N Lubold, L Friedman, E Walker - … 2020, Ifrane, Morocco, July 6–10 …, 2020 - Springer
Social robots have been shown to be effective educational tools. Rapport, or interpersonal
closeness, can lead to better human-robot interactions and positive learning outcomes. Prior …

Effect of Social Robot's Role and Behavior on Parent-Toddler Interaction

O Gvirsman, G Gordon - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Social robots, designed to interact with people through natural communication modes like
speech, body motion, gestures, and facial expressions, have been extensively studied in …

Social Robots in Secondary Education: Can Robots Assist Young Adult Learners with Math Learning?

A Bravo Perucho, M Alimardani - Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social robots have been extensively studied in educational settings for children and their
positive impacts on children's learning are reported. The aim of this study was to find out …

Investigating experiences with a robot teaching children self-management: A field trial

MME Neggers, PAM Ruijten… - 2021 30th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Earlier research [1] suggests that a social robot can contribute to gaining self-management
skills for children with diabetes. In the current study, the positive effect of different robot …

Foreign language tutoring for young adults with severe learning problems

P Vogt, S Dunk, P Poos - Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
This paper explores how young adults with severe learning problems may benefit from
foreign language tutoring using a social robot that either uses congruent gestures or …