2016 Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 700-704
Recently, more educational-support robots, which support learning, are paid attention to. However, the problem of these robots is that a user loses his/her interest in them. To solve this problem, some studies which focus on a model of emotional expressions have been reported in Human-Agent-Interaction. The model of emotional expressions is defined as the agent expressing its emotion with autonomous emotions. Although these models have been shown to be beneficial for effective interaction between an agent and a human, no reports have addressed the educational-support robots using these models. Thus, this paper studies how learning effect of robot which expresses the emotion by using the model of emotional expressions can prompt learners in a collaborative learning.
