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
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