“Robot, tell me a tale!”: A Social Robot as tool for Teachers in Kindergarten

CONTI, Daniela, CARLA, Cirasa, DI NUOVO, Santo and DI NUOVO, Alessandro (2020). “Robot, tell me a tale!”: A Social Robot as tool for Teachers in Kindergarten. Interaction Studies, 21 (2), 221-243.

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Abstract

Robots are versatile devices that are promising tools for supporting teaching and learning in the classroom or at home. In fact, robots can be engaging and motivating, especially for young children. This paper presents an experimental study with 81 kindergarten children on memorizations of two tales narrated by a humanoid robot. Variables of the study are the content of the tales (knowledge or emotional) and the different social behaviour of the narrators: static human, static robot, expressive human, and expressive robot. Results suggest a positive effect of the expressive behaviour in robot storytelling, whose effectiveness is comparable to a human with the same behaviour and better when compared with a static inexpressive human. Higher efficacy is achieved by the robot in the tale with knowledge content, while the limited capability to express emotions made the robot less effective in the tale with emotional content.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18024.con
Page Range:	221-243
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2019 14:05
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 01:18
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/23788

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