A comparison of social robot to tablet and teacher in a new script learning context

Z Zhexenova, A Amirova, M Abdikarimova… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This research occurred in a special context where Kazakhstan's recent decision to switch
from Cyrillic to the Latin-based alphabet has resulted in challenges connected to teaching …

Cowriting kazakh: learning a new script with a robot

A Sandygulova, W Johal, Z Zhexenova… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In the Republic of Kazakhstan, the transition from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet raises challenges
to training an entire population in writing the new script. This paper presents a CoWriting …

Comfort with robots influences rapport with a social, entraining teachable robot

N Lubold, E Walker, H Pon-Barry, A Ogan - … , Chicago, IL, USA, June 25-29 …, 2019 - Springer
Teachable agents are pedagogical agents that employ the 'learning-by-teaching'strategy,
which facilitates learning by encouraging students to construct explanations, reflect on …

A Psychological Need-Fulfillment Perspective for Designing Social Robots that Support Well-Being

S Janssen, BR Schadenberg - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2024 - Springer
This conceptual paper presents a novel framework for the design and study of social robots
that support well-being. Building upon the self-determination theory and the associated …

Mathchops: A platform for developing collaborative higher order problem solving in mathematics

Y Bergner, Y Wang - … of the 16th International Conference on …, 2023 - repository.isls.org
We describe an exploratory pilot study and a collaborative platform designed to engage
novice learners in higher-order thinking processes. The theoretical motivation for and facets …

Turn-taking strategies for human-robot peer-learning dialogue

R Das, H Pon-Barry - Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we apply the contribution model of grounding to a corpus of human-human
peer-mentoring dialogues. From this analysis, we propose effective turn-taking strategies for …

Affective Robot Learner: Implementation of Artificial Emotion System Inspired by Educational Psychology

B Görer, HL Akın - Human-Computer Interaction. Theory, Methods and …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we propose an affective robot learner system with artificial emotions. We define
a generic teaching framework which has a planner for the phases of a regular teaching …