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.
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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 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10498 LNAI, pp. 243–246). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_31
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