Paper Info
Title
Endowing A Robotic Tutor With Empathic Qualities: Design And Pilot Evaluation
Abstract
As increasingly more research efforts are geared towards creating robots that can teach and interact with children in educational contexts, it has been speculated that endowing robots with artificial empathy may facilitate learning. In this paper, we provide a background to the concept of empathy, and how it factors into learning. We then present our approach to equipping a robotic tutor with several empathic qualities, describing the technical architecture and its components, a map-reading learning scenario developed for an interactive multitouch table, as well as the pedagogical and empathic strategies devised for the robot. We also describe the results of a pilot study comparing the robotic tutor with these empathic qualities against a version of the tutor without them. The pilot study was performed with 26 school children aged 10-11 at their school. Results revealed that children in the test condition indeed rated the robot as more empathic than children in the control condition. Moreover, we explored several related measures, such as relational status and learning effect, yet no other significant differences were found. We further discuss these results and provide insights into future directions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1142/S0219843618500251
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANOID ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robot, tutor, empathy, education, children
Empathy,TUTOR,Architecture,Learning effect,Simulation,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
6
0219-8436
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad Obaid117728.40
Ruth Aylett21377170.50
Wolmet Barendregt321125.97
Christina Basedow4352.99
Lee J. Corrigan5293.79
Lynne Hall625528.87
Aidan Jones7405.44
Arvid Kappas826920.78
Dennis Küster900.68
Ana Paiva102618287.01
Fotios Papadopoulos11275.63
Sofia Serholt12517.23
Ginevra Castellano1374653.88