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Personalized Robot Tutoring Using the Assistive Tutor POMDP (AT-POMDP)

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Ramachandran, Aditi, Sebo, Sarah Strohkorb, Scassellati, Brian·2019·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Selecting appropriate tutoring help actions that account for both a student’s content mastery and engagement level is essential for effective human tutors, indicating the critical need for these skills in autonomous tutors. In this work, we formulate the robot-student tutoring help action selection problem as the Assistive Tutor partially observable Markov decision process (AT-POMDP). We designed the AT-POMDP and derived its parameters based on data from a prior robot-student tutoring study. The policy that results from solving the AT-POMDP allows a robot tutor to decide upon the optimal tutoring help action to give a student, while maintaining a belief of the student’s mastery of the material and engagement with the task. This approach is validated through a between-subjects field study, which involved 4th grade students (n=28) interacting with a social robot solving long division problems over five sessions. Students who received help from a robot using the AT-POMDP policy demonstrated significantly greater learning gains than students who received help from a robot with a fixed help action selection policy. Our results demonstrate that this robust computational framework can be used effectively to deliver diverse and personalized tutoring support over time for students.

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  1. Spaulding, S.; Gordon, G.; and Breazeal, C. 2016. Affectaware student models for robot tutors. In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems , 864-872. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

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Authors
Ramachandran, A., Sebo, S. S., & Scassellati, B.
Affiliations
Yale University (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Published
2019-07-17
Volume
33
Issue
01
Pages
8050-8057
ISSN
  • 2159-5399 (ISSN-L)
  • 2374-3468
OpenAlex
W2904737914
Cited by
51
References
29
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3
FWCI
1.63
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
  • AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
Keywords
partially observable Markov decision processes, personalized tutoring, student engagement, content mastery, social robots, long division, fourth grade, learning gains

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