Robot education peers in a situated primary school study: Personalisation promotes child learning.

The benefit of social robots to support child learning in an educational context over an extended period of time is evaluated. Specifically, the effect of personalisation and adaptation of robot social behaviour is assessed. Two autonomous robots were embedded within two matched classrooms of a prim...

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Main Authors: Paul Baxter, Emily Ashurst, Robin Read, James Kennedy, Tony Belpaeme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5441605?pdf=render