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 …

[PDF][PDF] Developing adaptive social robot tutors for children

A Ramachandran, B Scassellati - 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium Series, 2015 - cdn.aaai.org
There has been a large body of research demonstrating that students that receive one-on-
one tutoring perform, on average, significantly better than students learning via conventional …

The robot who tried too hard: Social behaviour of a robot tutor can negatively affect child learning

J Kennedy, P Baxter, T Belpaeme - … of the tenth annual ACM/IEEE …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Social robots are finding increasing application in the domain of education, particularly for
children, to support and augment learning opportunities. With an implicit assumption that …

[PDF][PDF] Adapting difficulty levels in personalized robot-child tutoring interactions

A Ramachandran, B Scassellati - Workshops at the Twenty-Eighth …, 2014 - cdn.aaai.org
Social robots can be used to tutor children in one-on-one interactions. Because students
have different learning needs, they consequently require complex, non-scripted teaching …

How to manage affective state in child-robot tutoring interactions?

T Schodde, L Hoffmann, S Kopp - … International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social robots represent a fruitful enhancement of intelligent tutoring systems that can be
used for one-to-one tutoring. The role of affective states during learning has so far only …

Affective personalization of a social robot tutor for children's second language skills

G Gordon, S Spaulding, JK Westlund, JJ Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ojs.aaai.org
Though substantial research has been dedicated towards using technology to improve
education, no current methods are as effective as one-on-one tutoring. A critical, though …

Shaping productive help-seeking behavior during robot-child tutoring interactions

A Ramachandran, A Litoiu… - 2016 11th ACM/IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In intelligent tutoring systems, one fundamental problem that limits learning gains is the
unproductive use of on-demand help features, namely overuse or aversion, resulting in …

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 …

Toward effective robot--child tutoring: Internal motivation, behavioral intervention, and learning outcomes

A Ramachandran, CM Huang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Personalized learning environments have the potential to improve learning outcomes for
children in a variety of educational domains, as they can tailor instruction based on the …

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 …