Impression Effects of Educational Assistive Robots that Compete with Learners for Learning

Abstract

Recently, educational support robots have been attracting attention. In this study, we focus on partner-type robots that learn together with learners. In the previous study, the partner-type robots perform collaborative learning by solving problems alternately with learners. However, as the learning progresses, the learner feels bored with the collaborative learning with the robot, and the impression of the robot decreases. To prevent this problem, we believe that it is effective for the robot compete with the learner for correct answer of the problems in collaborative learning. We believe that the competition of the robot make the learner feel strongly that they is learning together with the robot. Therefore, the learner does not tired of the collaborative learning with the robot and improves the impression of the robot. In this paper, we develop a partner-type robot that compete with the learner for correct answers in the collaborative learning. Moreover, we examine the impression of our robot through the experiments on college students.