Does a robot tutee increase children’s engagement in a learning-by-teaching situation?

Markus Lindberg; Kristian Månsson; Birger Johansson; Agneta Gulz; Christian Balkenius

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_31

Does a robot tutee increase children’s engagement in a learning-by-teaching situation?

Markus Lindberg, Kristian Månsson, Birger Johansson, Agneta Gulz, Christian Balkenius

Lund University

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Abstract

This paper presents initial attempts to combine a humanoid robot with the teachable agent approach. Several design choices are discussed, including the decision to use a robot instead of a virtual agent and which behaviours to implement in the robot. A pilot study explored how the interaction with a robot seemed to influence children’s engagement as well as their attribution of mental states to a robot and to a virtual agent. Eight children participated and the interaction was measured via an observational protocol and a conversational interview. A main outcome was large individual differences between the children’s interaction with the robot compared to the virtual agent.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intelligent Virtual Agents - 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer
Pages	243-246
Number of pages	4
Volume	10498 LNAI
ISBN (Print)	9783319674001
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_31
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2017 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 2017 Aug 27 → 2017 Aug 30

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10498 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	03029743
ISSN (Electronic)	16113349

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2017
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	2017/08/27 → 2017/08/30

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Human Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)

Free keywords

Learning-by-teaching
Robot
Virtual agent

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_31

CCL: Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
Sahlén, B., Gärdenfors, P., Hesslow, G., Lindgren, M., Strömqvist, S., Byström, I., Sjöstrand, E., Mårtensson, J., Andersson, A., Hansson, K., Gullberg, M., Johansson, R., Johansson, M., Falck, A., Roll, M., Ståhlberg, F., Horne, M., Blomberg, F., Johansson, V., Nirme, J., Gulz, A., van de Weijer, J., Paradis, C., Tärning, B., Bramao, I., Sayehli, S., Löhndorf, S., Willners, C., Blomberg, J., Schötz, S., Haake, M., Brännström, J., Grenner, E., Holsanova, J., Wengelin, Å., Johnsson, M., Winberg, S., Balkenius, C., Gharaee, Z. & Bååth, R.
Swedish Research Council
2008/01/01 → 2018/12/31
Project: Research

Lund University Cognitive Robotics Lab
Birger Johansson (Manager) & Christian Balkenius (Manager)
Cognitive Science
Infrastructure

Cite this

Lindberg, M., Månsson, K., Johansson, B., Gulz, A., & Balkenius, C. (2017). Does a robot tutee increase children’s engagement in a learning-by-teaching situation? In Intelligent Virtual Agents - 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Proceedings (Vol. 10498 LNAI, pp. 243-246). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10498 LNAI). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_31

Lindberg, Markus ; Månsson, Kristian ; Johansson, Birger et al. / Does a robot tutee increase children’s engagement in a learning-by-teaching situation?. Intelligent Virtual Agents - 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Proceedings. Vol. 10498 LNAI Springer, 2017. pp. 243-246 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Lindberg, M, Månsson, K, Johansson, B , Gulz, A & Balkenius, C 2017, Does a robot tutee increase children’s engagement in a learning-by-teaching situation? in Intelligent Virtual Agents - 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Proceedings. vol. 10498 LNAI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10498 LNAI, Springer, pp. 243-246, 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017/08/27. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_31

Does a robot tutee increase children’s engagement in a learning-by-teaching situation? / Lindberg, Markus; Månsson, Kristian; Johansson, Birger et al.

Intelligent Virtual Agents - 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Proceedings. Vol. 10498 LNAI Springer, 2017. p. 243-246 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10498 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Paper in conference proceeding › peer-review