Despite the relatively young age of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) as a field, there is a
large volume of research on advances in robot hardware, software and behavior. The goal …

In recent years, there has been a growing research interest towards exploring the benefit of
Child–Robot Interaction for educational purposes through the use of social robotics. Despite …

This paper explores children's social engagement to a robotic tutor by analyzing their
behavioral reactions to socially significant events initiated by the robot. Specific questions …

Social robots are entering the private and public domain where they engage in social
interactions with nontechnical users. This requires robots to be socially interactive and …

Research in psychology, pedagogy, and physiology has shown that learning a second
language will be a great benefit to preschool children. Compared with adults, children have …

Robots have been proposed as teaching assistants for children, but few studies have
measured their effectiveness. This paper describes an experiment using the Baxter robot for …

Advances in the field of robotics in recent years have enabled the deployment of robots in a
multitude of settings, and it is predicted that this will continue to increase, leading to a …

We focus on affective architecture issues relating to the generation of expressive facial
behaviour, critique approaches that treat expressive behaviour as only a mirror of internal …

As robots are becoming increasingly common in society and education, it is expected that
autonomous and socially adaptive classroom robots may eventually be given responsible …

This thesis explores how to utilise social robotic tutors to tackle the problem of providing
children with enough personalised scaffolding to develop Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) …