A Robot in a Science Room to Help Understanding of Science Class

• Komatsubara Tsuyoshi

  Osaka University ATR IRC

• Shiomi Masahiro

  ATR IRC

• Kanda Takayuki

  ATR IRC

• Ishiguro Hiroshi

  Osaka University

• Hagita Norihiro

  ATR IRC

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 理科室で授業の理解を支援するロボットシステム
• リカシツ デ ジュギョウ ノ リカイ オ シエン スル ロボット システム

Abstract

This paper reports a robot which interacts with children semi-autonomously in a science room of an elementary school to help children's understanding of science classes. The robot asked children questions related to their science classes during breaks between science classes; children could freely interact with it during experiment periods. We implemented a personal identification function to the robot by using a face recognition system with robot's camera and a human tracking system with environmental sensors. Still, speech recognition is difficult in noisy elementary school environment; therefore we decided to take over speech recognition function by the operator. In this study our result did not show significant effects of the robot existence for helping children's understanding, but we found that children who joined to the robot's quiz more than a certain time increased understanding toward a specific unit.

Journal

• Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan

  Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan 33 (10), 789-799, 2015

  The Robotics Society of Japan

Keywords

• Robots for Children
• Social Robot
• Elementary School
• Field Study

Details

• CRID: 1390001204728123776
• NII Article ID: 130005119624
• NII Book ID: AN00141189
• DOI: 10.7210/jrsj.33.789
• ISSN: 18847145
• ISSN: 02891824
• NDL BIB ID: 027004697
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027004697
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jrsj/33/10/33_33_789/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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