ERIKA – Early Robotics Introduction at Kindergarten Age. Schiffer, S. & Ferrein, A. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2018. Paper doi abstract bibtex 2 downloads In this work, we report on our attempt to design and implement an early introduction to basic robotics principles for children at kindergarten age. One of the main challenges of this effort is to explain complex robotics contents in a way that pre-school children could follow the basic principles and ideas using examples from their world of experience. What sets apart our effort from other work is that part of the lecturing is actually done by a robot itself and that a quiz at the end of the lesson is done using robots as well. The humanoid robot Pepper from Softbank, which is a great platform for human-robot interaction experiments, was used to present a lecture on robotics by reading out the contents to the children making use of its speech synthesis capability. A quiz in a Runaround-game-show style after the lecture activated the children to recap the contents they acquired about how mobile robots work in principle. In this quiz, two LEGO Mindstorm EV3 robots were used to implement a strongly interactive scenario. Besides the thrill of being exposed to a mobile robot that would also react to the children, they were very excited and at the same time very concentrated. We got very positive feedback from the children as well as from their educators. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of only few attempts to use a robot like Pepper not as a tele-teaching tool, but as the teacher itself in order to engage pre-school children with complex robotics contents.
@Article{ Schiffer:Ferrein:MTI2018:ERiKA,
author = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander},
title = {ERIKA -- Early Robotics Introduction at Kindergarten Age},
journal = {Multimodal Technologies and Interaction},
year = {2018},
volume = {2},
number = {4},
article-number = {64},
url = {http://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/2/4/64},
issn = {2414-4088},
abstract = {In this work, we report on our attempt to design and
implement an early introduction to basic robotics
principles for children at kindergarten age. One of
the main challenges of this effort is to explain
complex robotics contents in a way that pre-school
children could follow the basic principles and ideas
using examples from their world of experience. What
sets apart our effort from other work is that part
of the lecturing is actually done by a robot itself
and that a quiz at the end of the lesson is done
using robots as well. The humanoid robot Pepper from
Softbank, which is a great platform for human-robot
interaction experiments, was used to present a
lecture on robotics by reading out the contents to
the children making use of its speech synthesis
capability. A quiz in a Runaround-game-show style
after the lecture activated the children to recap
the contents they acquired about how mobile robots
work in principle. In this quiz, two LEGO Mindstorm
EV3 robots were used to implement a strongly
interactive scenario. Besides the thrill of being
exposed to a mobile robot that would also react to
the children, they were very excited and at the same
time very concentrated. We got very positive
feedback from the children as well as from their
educators. To the best of our knowledge, this is one
of only few attempts to use a robot like Pepper not
as a tele-teaching tool, but as the teacher itself
in order to engage pre-school children with complex
robotics contents.},
doi = {10.3390/mti2040064},
}
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