Using the Engagement Profile to Design an Engaging Robotic Teaching Assistant for Students
We report on an exploratory study conducted at a graduate school in Sweden with a humanoid robot, Baxter. First, we describe a list of potentially useful capabilities for a robot teaching assistant derived from brainstorming and interviews with faculty members, teachers, and students. These capabili...
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| description | We report on an exploratory study conducted at a graduate school in Sweden with a humanoid robot, Baxter. First, we describe a list of potentially useful capabilities for a robot teaching assistant derived from brainstorming and interviews with faculty members, teachers, and students. These capabilities consist of reading educational materials out loud, greeting, alerting, allowing remote operation, providing clarifications, and moving to carry out physical tasks. Secondly, we present feedback on how the robot’s capabilities, demonstrated in part with the Wizard of Oz approach, were perceived, and iteratively adapted over the course of several lectures, using the Engagement Profile tool. Thirdly, we discuss observations regarding the capabilities and the development process. Our findings suggest that using a social robot as a teaching assistant is promising using the chosen capabilities and Engagement Profile tool. We find that enhancing the robot’s autonomous capabilities and further investigating the role of embodiment are some important topics to be considered in future work. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a229ba67566240f8bd635d2d8c9d3da32022-12-22T02:55:26ZengMDPI AGRobotics2218-65812019-03-01812110.3390/robotics8010021robotics8010021Using the Engagement Profile to Design an Engaging Robotic Teaching Assistant for StudentsMartin Cooney0Wolfgang Leister1Dept. of Intelligent Systems and Digital Design, School of Information Technology, Halmstad University, 301 18 Halmstad, SwedenNorsk Regnesentral, 0373 Oslo, NorwayWe report on an exploratory study conducted at a graduate school in Sweden with a humanoid robot, Baxter. First, we describe a list of potentially useful capabilities for a robot teaching assistant derived from brainstorming and interviews with faculty members, teachers, and students. These capabilities consist of reading educational materials out loud, greeting, alerting, allowing remote operation, providing clarifications, and moving to carry out physical tasks. Secondly, we present feedback on how the robot’s capabilities, demonstrated in part with the Wizard of Oz approach, were perceived, and iteratively adapted over the course of several lectures, using the Engagement Profile tool. Thirdly, we discuss observations regarding the capabilities and the development process. Our findings suggest that using a social robot as a teaching assistant is promising using the chosen capabilities and Engagement Profile tool. We find that enhancing the robot’s autonomous capabilities and further investigating the role of embodiment are some important topics to be considered in future work.http://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/8/1/21robotrobotic teaching assistantteachinguser engagementevaluation |
| spellingShingle | Martin Cooney Wolfgang Leister Using the Engagement Profile to Design an Engaging Robotic Teaching Assistant for Students Robotics robot robotic teaching assistant teaching user engagement evaluation |
| title | Using the Engagement Profile to Design an Engaging Robotic Teaching Assistant for Students |
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| title_short | Using the Engagement Profile to Design an Engaging Robotic Teaching Assistant for Students |
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