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This paper reports results of our experiment aimed to investigate the educational process in an elementary school science class, in which teaching functions are carried out by an android robot remotely operated by a human instructor. The robot SAYA, used in the experiments, has human-like appearance and behaviors such as facial expressions, head and eye movements, and speech. In the experiment the instructor remotely controlled SAYA’s behaviors, thus managing the interaction of the robot with the students. The experiment recreated a typical lesson on levers that was given to two ordinary groups of sixth graders (23 and 22 students) in their science classroom. The lesson included theoretical learning, experiments with lever balances, and assessment activities. The study utilized qualitative research methods so as to elicit characteristic features of the educational process related to in-class communication, instructional strategies, learning activities, and knowledge acquisition. The paper presents our findings and discusses directions of further research.
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Hashimoto, T., Verner, I.M., Kobayashi, H. (2013). Human-Like Robot as Teacher’s Representative in a Science Lesson: An Elementary School Experiment. In: Kim, JH., Matson, E., Myung, H., Xu, P. (eds) Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2012. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37374-9_74
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