TY - JOUR
T1 - Ontologies-based pupil robot interaction with group discussion
AU - Ono, Hiroki
AU - Koike, Kaito
AU - Morita, Takeshi
AU - Yamaguchi, Takahira
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Recently, robots have become increasingly familiar to humans as more and more service robots have been applied for use in various fields. The market for robots is expected to further expand in the next few decades, increasing the level of their involvement with humans. Based on this assumption, we have studied robots working cooperatively with humans at cafes, or classes that are conjointly conducted by a teacher and a robot. In contrast, in the current elementary school education system, there are increasing demands for not only transferring knowledge unilaterally from a teacher to pupils, but also inducing pupil's voluntary commitment to learning while maintaining their motivation. This has led to various experiments being conducted at educational sites. However, research that has been conducted so far on support for teachers has targeted robots that work only as a supporter of the teachers, making it insufficient to achieve these educational goals. In this study, based on the goals described above, we introduced robots to class discussion sessions with small groups and constructed a "discussion support robot" to facilitate discussion among children. Here, the robots played two roles as a discussion participant and as a discussion facilitator to not only assist teachers to proceed with a discussion among children. Moreover, a discussion session was conducted in an actual elementary school using this system as a case study and evaluations made by the pupils and teachers were reviewed.
AB - Recently, robots have become increasingly familiar to humans as more and more service robots have been applied for use in various fields. The market for robots is expected to further expand in the next few decades, increasing the level of their involvement with humans. Based on this assumption, we have studied robots working cooperatively with humans at cafes, or classes that are conjointly conducted by a teacher and a robot. In contrast, in the current elementary school education system, there are increasing demands for not only transferring knowledge unilaterally from a teacher to pupils, but also inducing pupil's voluntary commitment to learning while maintaining their motivation. This has led to various experiments being conducted at educational sites. However, research that has been conducted so far on support for teachers has targeted robots that work only as a supporter of the teachers, making it insufficient to achieve these educational goals. In this study, based on the goals described above, we introduced robots to class discussion sessions with small groups and constructed a "discussion support robot" to facilitate discussion among children. Here, the robots played two roles as a discussion participant and as a discussion facilitator to not only assist teachers to proceed with a discussion among children. Moreover, a discussion session was conducted in an actual elementary school using this system as a case study and evaluations made by the pupils and teachers were reviewed.
KW - Consensus building
KW - Discussion robot
KW - Ontology
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2019.09.380
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2019.09.380
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85076259450
VL - 159
SP - 2071
EP - 2080
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
SN - 1877-0509
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2019
Y2 - 4 September 2019 through 6 September 2019
ER -