The impact of robot tutor nonverbal social behavior on child learning

J Kennedy, P Baxter, T Belpaeme - Frontiers in ICT, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Several studies have indicated that interacting with social robots in educational contexts
may lead to a greater learning than interactions with computers or virtual agents. As such, an …

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 …

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 …

Beyond words: Children's multimodal responses during word learning with a social robot

NF Tolksdorf, UJ Mertens - … on Digital Media and Early Literacy, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Digital devices such as social robots are increasingly being developed as artificially
intelligent learning tools that could support and expand early childhood education by …

Comparing robot embodiments in a guided discovery learning interaction with children

J Kennedy, P Baxter, T Belpaeme - International Journal of Social …, 2015 - Springer
The application of social robots to the domain of education is becoming more prevalent.
However, there remain a wide range of open issues, such as the effectiveness of robots as …

Children use non-verbal cues to learn new words from robots as well as people

JMK Westlund, L Dickens, S Jeong, PL Harris… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Social robots are innovative new technologies that have considerable potential to support
children's education as tutors and learning companions. Given this potential, it behooves us …

Can a robot teach me that? Children's ability to imitate robots

K Sommer, V Slaughter, J Wiles, K Owen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Commensurate with constant technological advances, social robots are increasingly
anticipated to enter homes and classrooms; however, little is known about the efficacy of …

Robot tutoring of multiplication: Over one-third learning gain for most, learning loss for some

JF Hoorn, IS Huang, EA Konijn, L van Buuren - Robotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the design of educational robots, it appears to be undecided as to whether robots should
show social behaviors and look human-like or whether such cues are insignificant for …

Learning with or from the robot: exploring robot roles in educational context with children

N Tazhigaliyeva, Y Diyas, D Brakk… - Social Robotics: 8th …, 2016 - Springer
The goal of this ongoing research is to examine the feasibility of using a social humanoid
robot to teach children the basics of programming. We focus on exploring robot's adaptive …

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 …