“Sociable robot improves toddler vocabulary skills,”
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We report results of a study in which a low cost sociable robot was immersed at an Early Childhood Education Center for a period of 2 weeks. The study was designed to investigate whether the robot, which operated fully autonomously during the intervention period, could improve target vocabulary skills of 18-24 month of age toddlers. The results showed a 27 % improvement in knowledge of the target words taught by the robot when compared to a matched set of control words. The results suggest that sociable robots may be an effective and low cost technology to enrich Early Childhood Education environments.
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Early designs of interactive tutoring aids comprised rule-based systems mirroring interactions between expert teacher and student or between peer companions.
“Early designs of interactive tutoring aids for teaching and support comprised of rule-based systems mirroring interactions between expert teacher and student (Arroyo et al., 2004; Olney et al., 2012) or between peer companions (Movellan et al., 2009).”
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- Authors
- Movellan, J., Eckhardt, M., Virnes, M., & Rodriguez, A.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- University of Eastern Finland (FI)
- ORCID
- Virnes, Marjo
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2009-03-09
- Pages
- 307-308
- OpenAlex
- W2082666068
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.49
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
- Keywords
- social robots, vocabulary acquisition, toddlers, early childhood education, autonomous robots, low-cost technology, word learning, educational robotics
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