Development of Communication Robot for Field of School Education

Abstract

ICT education at schools is to make use of the information and communication technology such as electronic boards or tablets in class through Japan recently. The two different kinds of communication robots have been developed so that people could learn how to lead a better communication using robot technology. Mug-Bot is the social robot on the platform for open sources. Date-Bot has been developed to let the historical personality make dramas by using voice function in social studies class. Connect robot has been developed for the students who cannot go to school due to illness or school refusal to see the movie and the texts of each subject using video monitoring function. In addition, we surveyed, giving questionnaire to Japanese, Chinese, and Korean students and examined the utilization of the robot. In this paper, we describe how to develop, introduce and apply the communication robots in the field of school education.