• DocumentCode
    2019846
  • Title

    Help, I need some body the effect of embodiment on playful learning

  • Author

    Looije, Rosemarijn ; Van der Zalm, Anna ; Neerincx, Mark A. ; Beun, Robbert-Jan

  • Author_Institution
    TNO, Soesterberg, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-13 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    718
  • Lastpage
    724
  • Abstract
    Children with a chronic disease like diabetes need to learn how to self manage their disease. Knowledge about their condition is indispensable to reach this goal. Within the European project ALIZ-E a robot companion is being developed that should, among others attributes, have the capability to educate children. In this paper, a virtual agent on a screen is compared with a physical robot on the aspects of performance (learning), attention and motivation. The experiment consisted of two sessions in which children played a quiz consisting of health related questions with both the robot and the virtual agent, there was a week between the two sessions. It was found that performance and motivation were not affected by the embodiment, but the robot did attract more attention and, when forced to choose, the children had a preference for the robot.
  • Keywords
    biomedical education; diseases; educational robots; human-robot interaction; medical robotics; ALIZ-E; European project; children; chronic disease; diabetes; disease self management; health related questions; physical robot; playful learning; robot companion; virtual agent; Cameras; Diseases; Educational institutions; Games; Humans; Pediatrics; Robots;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    RO-MAN, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Paris
  • ISSN
    1944-9445
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4604-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1944-9445
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROMAN.2012.6343836
  • Filename
    6343836