Social Robot for STEM Education

Muneeb Ahmad; Mark Khordi-moodi; Katrin Solveig Lohan

doi:10.1145/3371382.3378291

Social Robot for STEM Education

Muneeb Ahmad, Mark Khordi-moodi, Katrin Solveig Lohan

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Abstract

This work explores the use of the Cozmo robot to deliver mathematics education. Recently, we see a lot of work presented on using robots for education but few works centred around the age group of children between 14-17 years of age in combination with a non-humanoid robot. Reflecting on this limitation, Cozmo autonomously delivered engaging material and exercises to learners. We studied the subjective ratings of young learners' knowledge gains with Cozmo on the topics of algebra, geometry and trigonometry. We found that participants' subjective rating on their knowledge changed significantly after the interaction. This implied a positive influence of employing Cozmo with this age group and also reflected on the need to do more research in schools with affordable non-humanoid, autonomous social robots.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	90-92
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450370578
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378291
Publication status	Published - 23 Mar 2020
Event	15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2020 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Mar 2020 → 26 Mar 2020 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/

Conference

Conference	15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2020
Abbreviated title	HRI 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	23/03/20 → 26/03/20
Internet address	https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2020/

Keywords

Cozmo
Educational robots
Human-robot interaction
Social robots
Stem

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Ahmad, M, Khordi-moodi, M & Lohan, KS 2020, Social Robot for STEM Education. in HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 90-92, 15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 23/03/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378291

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