Empathic Robotic Tutors

Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems, 2015

In this demonstration, we describe a scenario developed in the EMOTE project [2]. The overall goal of the EMOTE project is to develop an empathic robot tutor for 11-13 year old school students in an educational setting. The pedagogical domain we demonstrate here is to assist students in learning and testing their map-reading skills typically learned as part of the geography curriculum in schools. We demonstrate this scenario with a NAO robot interacting with the students whilst performing map-reading tasks in the form of a game on a touch-screen device.

2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2016

In this video submission, we describe a scenario developed in the EMOTE project. The overall goal of the EMOTE project is to develop an empathic robot tutor for 11-13 year old school students in an educational setting. The pedagogical domain here is to assist students in learning and testing their map-reading skills typically learned as part of the geography curriculum in schools. We show this scenario with a NAO robot interacting with the students whilst performing mapreading tasks on a touch-screen device in this video.

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

As increasingly more research efforts are geared towards creating robots that can teach and interact with children in educational contexts, it has been speculated that endowing robots with artificial empathy may facilitate learning. In this paper, we provide a background to the concept of empathy, and how it factors into learning. We then present our approach to equipping a robotic tutor with several empathic qualities, describing the technical architecture and its components, a map-reading learning scenario developed for an interactive multitouch table, as well as the pedagogical and empathic strategies devised for the robot. We also describe the results of a pilot study comparing the robotic tutor with these empathic qualities against a version of the tutor without them. The pilot study was performed with 26 school children aged 10–11 at their school. Results revealed that children in the test condition indeed rated the robot as more empathic than children in the control condition...

2014

This paper reports work being carried out in the EMOTE project (http://www.emote-project.eu/) towards the development of an empathic robot tutor at a multi-touch table for geography curriculum teaching for 11-14 year olds.

We present a Wizard of Oz (WoZ) environment that was designed to build an artificial embodied intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that is capable of empathic conversations with school pupils aged between 10-13. We describe the components and the data that we plan to collect using the environment.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2015

Within any learning process, the formation of a socioemotional relationship between learner and teacher is paramount to facilitating a good learning experience. The ability to form this relationship may come naturally to an attentive teacher; but how do we endow an unemotional robot with this ability? In this paper, we extend upon insights from the literature to include tools from user-centered design (UCD) and analyses of human-human interaction (HHI) as the basis of a multidisciplinary approach in the development of an empathic robotic tutor. We discuss the lessons learned in respect to design principles with the aim of personalised learning with empathic robotic tutors.

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 47:4, 2019

When historians have examined labour relations in the Belgian Congo, the paradigmatic image is that of rapacious, avaricious metropolitan investors oppressing helpless African communities by dint of a skeletal but violent cohort of intermediaries. Leopold II was exemplary of this trend. Having never set foot in the Congo, he drew vast profits from the territory by means of initiating a series of appalling atrocities as his employees coerced Africans into harvesting rubber in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such emphasis on exploitation fits with a long-standing scholarly emphasis on African dependency that has also highlighted how capital has leaked out of the Congo and into Europe and North America. Yet this article argues, first, that capital sometimes leaked from Europe to the Congo. Secondly, this essay suggests that not every investor in the Congo was as mendacious and cynical as Leopold II. Some, namely the Lever brothers, came to the Congo in the sincere hopes of establishing Christian, middle class African communities in the bush. But Lever’s plans were compromised by the firm’s paternalism and their overriding need to turn a profit.

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ALTRUISTIK : Jurnal Konseling dan Psikologi Pendidikan, 2021

The purpose of this study is that researchers want to look at counselee acceptance skills in individual counseling by guidance and counseling teachers in MTsN 10 Agam. This type of research is descriptive qualitative field research. The key informants of this study were 1 guidance and counseling teacher plus a supporting informant of 7 students who had participated in individual counseling using the snowball method, which is a method for identifying, selecting and taking samples in a network or continuous chain of relationships. The information obtained will be developed to the point of saturation so that the longer the more information obtained. Based on the results of research and discussion it can be concluded that as a strategy for counselee acceptance skills by counseling teachers in individual counseling, counseling teachers assume counselee is the closest person, can accept counselees openly, guiding sincerely or voluntarily, sincerity, and loving, keep secrets counselee, not...

The Armenian Review, 1980

The Armenian Review 33 (1980) 315-19. By Claude Cox. The original article appears here, now with several colour photos. This article records ancient practices continued at Gayané at the time. Gayané is a church in Etchmiadzin, not so famous as the "mother church" a short distance away. My visits took place when I was a graduate student and more than a decade before Armenia gained its independence again.