Progressive development of an autonomous robot for children through parallel comparison of two robots

• Published in: HRI '14 : proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction : March 3-6, 2014, Bielefeld, Germany pp. 244 - 245
• Main Authors: Matsuzoe, Shizuko, Kuzuoka, Hideaki, Tanaka, Fumihide
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 03.03.2014
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Applied computing > Education; Autonomous robots; Care-receiving robot; child education; children-robot interaction; Computer systems organization > Embedded and cyber-physical systems > Robotics; Computers; Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Control methods > Robotic planning; Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Planning and scheduling > Robotic planning; Education; Games; Gold; Iterative methods; learning support; parallel comparison of two robots; progressive development; children-robot interaction; progressive development; care-receiving robot; learning support; child education; parallel comparison of two robots
• ISBN: 1450326587; 9781450326582
• DOI: 10.1145/2559636.2563700

This study proposes and demonstrates a progressive development method for an autonomous robot that is used for childhood education. The main concept in this method is to iteratively explore new behavioral factors and use them to progressively develop the robot by concurrently using and comparing two robots in a classroom. Usually, in classrooms for young children, it is practically difficult to recruit a sufficient number of participants and conduct many experiments. The parallel comparison employed in the proposed method enables rapid development to deal with these difficulties.