Title | ||
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Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor |
Abstract | ||
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Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the interaction in a tutoring scenario as unidirectional knowledge transfer rather than a social dialog. Therefore, ongoing research aims to develop virtual agents as more appropriate media in education. Virtual agents can induce the perception of a life-like social interaction partner that communicates through natural modalities such as speech, gestures and emotional expressions. This effect can be additionally enhanced with a physical robotic embodiment. This paper presents the development of social supportive behaviors for a robotic tutor to be used in a language learning application. The effect of these behaviors on the learning performance of students was evaluated. The results support that employing social supportive behavior increases learning efficiency of students. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1145/1753326.1753567 | CHI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
human-robot interaction,social interaction,education,tutoring,language learning,emotional expression,human robot interaction | Social relation,TUTOR,Gesture,Computer science,Knowledge transfer,Human–computer interaction,Language acquisition,Social competence,Vocabulary,Multimedia,Human–robot interaction | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
93 | 3.93 | 14 |
Authors | ||
4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Martin Saerbeck | 1 | 164 | 10.10 |
Tom Schut | 2 | 93 | 3.93 |
Christoph Bartneck | 3 | 1226 | 106.95 |
Maddy D. Janse | 4 | 117 | 5.78 |