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Pretotyping is a set of techniques, tools, and metrics for gauging the interest in a product, prior to full-scale development [1]. This late breaking report describes a pretotyping case study of an ethnodroid - a robot that functions as an ethnographer - intended to engage with young children and record their learning progress. The central requirement for the project is that the robot will be able...
Language can be a useful tool for social robots as part of their repertoire of social engagement. This late breaking report outlines preliminary studies into how a child can teach a robot lexicons for colors and color relations. The robot used is a minimal social robot, made from cardboard and foam, that interacts with the children through a simple color naming game. Distributed, non-parametric lexicons...
Robots that facilitate touch by children have special requirements in terms of safety and robustness, but little is known about how and when children actually use touch with robots. Tools and techniques are required to sense the variety of children's touch and to interpret the volumes of data generated. This explorative user study investigated children's patterns of touch during game play with a robot...
The principle of evolving educational content – stepwise and stochastic refinement of educational problems on the basis of a student's previous success – is extended and evaluated for the domain of spelling. Experimental results, generated by an implementation in a classroom setting, show that the principle of evolving educational content is not only sensitive to an individual student's ability but...
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