抄録
Robotic pet was introducing into kindergarten class work for 4-6 aged children in order to investigate the possibility of the robotic human interface and find the keys for developing the multimedia education system to enrich early childhood education. The purpose of this study is to help a child healthy metal develop by enriched moral education and intellectual training as the early childhood education by using various digital multimedia devices, and robotic pet as the interactive human interface. In this work, robotic pet, AIBO?(ERS-311B; SONY-ERC) was used alone for the first step of this study in order to evaluate ability, fascination as the human interface to child. Child's earnestness and concentration to the robot were evaluated by the number of raising their hands as the respond of question about robot. Most of children were much interested in robot, but some problems of using a robot in a classroom of kindergarten were found. We propose the model of multimedia education system using robotic pet as the human interface to enrich early childhood education.
