Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction

Li, Jamy; Ju, Wendy

Abstract

Methods and materials are described for employing a human-shaped robot as a lecturer in automated remote instruction. Video segments from the stimuli of a 2 (participant substrate: VR or non-VR) x 2 (robot embodiment: copresent or screen) balanced between-participants experiment are provided. In each condition, a robot delivers the content for a lecture on the nutrition of carbohydrates. The robot uses identical speech and body movement while the same set of slides plays on an adjacent computer, thereby controlling for such factors as educational content, robot appearance and robot size. The experiment employs Aldebaran Robotics’ 25-degrees-of-freedom Nao as the robot and the Oculus Rift as the immersive VR system. The lecture speech and slides were obtained with permission from a Mandarin Chinese-language online course and translated into English. The setup for different delivery modes for automated remote instruction are illustrated using a robot delivering foreign language online content. These methods support the design and evaluation of robots that perform the role of lecturer.

Citation

Li, J., & Ju, W. (2016, March). Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction. Presented at AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, Palo Alto, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
• Start Date: Mar 21, 2016
• End Date: Mar 23, 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Deposit Date: May 7, 2024
• Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 142-143
• Book Title: Papers from the 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium
• Publisher URL: https://cdn.aaai.org/ocs/12730/12730-56125-1-PB.pdf