Learning supports for children by using multiple social robots

Abstract

Supporting children’s learning activities is one promising application for social robots. This paper introduces several systems that support storytelling and English learning for children by using multiple robots and a person identification system for such support. For this purpose, we developed a system that integrates a positioning system by using depth and acceleration sensors to anonymously gather the trajectories of people. Moreover, we conducted experiments on children to investigate how multiple robots are better than a single robot in the context of supporting children’s learning activity. The experiment’s results showed the advantages of using multiple robots such as motivation improvement and acceptableness.