Being aware of one’s self in the auto-generated chat with a communication robot

Abstract

We consider a friendly robot set in the elementary school classroom. The robot should work as an extra existence in the classroom. The robot chat was generated by a recurrent neural network that learned a resource of the students’ written sentences. Since the learned data were small, response speeches were imperfect, but some of the students noticed that the robot’s words were about the students’ activities. Many of the students remarked that they want to have a friendship with the robot, feeling the robot’s self through its attitudes of talk and the word resources of students’ activities. Chatting with the classroom robot and grow it might be a new way to reflect on students’ activities.