Investigating Effectiveness of a Handwriting Robot using Onomatopoeia

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a personal robot that teaches teacher's handwriting skills using quantified onomatopoeia. In order to evaluate its skill teaching ability, we prepared three groups; “Control group” in which learners learn a character by watching the target character written on a paper as a model, “Robot group” in which learners learn with the robot that shows handwriting movement as a model, and “Onomatopoeia robot group” in which the robot shows handwriting movement with onomatopoeic speech as a model. We compared the characters written by these groups before and after learning. As the result of experiment, we confirmed that the robot is able to encourage learning of the handwriting skills for handwriting learner. However, the result did not show positive effects of onomatopoeia and suggests a need for more extensive study.