Sociable robot improves toddler vocabulary skills

We report results of a study in which a low cost sociable robot was immersed at an Early Childhood Education Center for a period of 2 weeks. The study was designed to investigate whether the robot, which operated fully autonomously during the intervention period, could improve target vocabulary skil...

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Published in2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) pp. 307 - 308
Main Authors Movellan, Javier, Eckhardt, Micah, Virnes, Marjo, Rodriguez, Angelica
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 09.03.2009
IEEE
SeriesACM Conferences
Subjects
Algorithms
Applied computing > Law, social and behavioral sciences
Educational institutions
Games
Hardware > Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
Human Factors
Pediatrics
Robot sensing systems
Robotics
Ubiquitous computering
Vocabulary
robotics
algorithms
ubiquitous computing
human factors
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ISBN1605584045
9781605584041
ISSN2167-2121
DOI10.1145/1514095.1514189

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Summary:We report results of a study in which a low cost sociable robot was immersed at an Early Childhood Education Center for a period of 2 weeks. The study was designed to investigate whether the robot, which operated fully autonomously during the intervention period, could improve target vocabulary skills of 18-24 month of age toddlers. The results showed a 27 % improvement in knowledge of the target words taught by the robot when compared to a matched set of control words. The results suggest that sociable robots may be an effective and low cost technology to enrich Early Childhood Education environments.
ISBN:1605584045
9781605584041
ISSN:2167-2121
DOI:10.1145/1514095.1514189