Takayuki Kanda
Michihiro Shimada
ABSTRACT
We used a social robot as a teaching assistant in a class for children's collaborative learning. In the class, a group of 6th graders learned together using Lego Mindstorms. The class consisted of seven lessons with Robovie, a social robot, followed by one lesson to test their individual achievement. Robovie managed the class and explained how to use Lego Mindstorms. In addition to such basic management behaviors for the class, we prepared social behaviors for building relationships with the children and encouraging them. The result shows that the social behavior encouraged children to work more in the first two lessons, but did not affect them in later lessons. On the other hand, social behavior contributed to building relationships and attaining better social acceptance.
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- Children learning with a social robot
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