TY - GEN
T1 - Humanoid robots as teaching assistants in an arab school
AU - Mubin, Omar
AU - Alhashmi, Mariam
AU - Baroud, Rama
AU - Alnajjar, Fady S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/12/2
Y1 - 2019/12/2
N2 - The proliferation of educational robots has led to an investigation of suitable roles that humanoids robots can take in the classroom. In the recent past, the focus has been on humanoids being used in student focused roles or as peer learners. Coupled with the seemingly absence of any case studies of educational robots in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or the Arab world, we present a study where we employed the Nao robot as a teaching assistant in a local primary school in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Nao robot was used to revise a topic in Mathematics and its efficacy in comparison to a human teaching assistant was measured through pre and post test scores, facial expressions and indirect verbal responses. Our results showed that while there no significant differences in test scores, the children were much more engaged when interacting with the Nao robot. We conclude with a positive outlook towards the implementation of humanoid robots in UAE classrooms.
AB - The proliferation of educational robots has led to an investigation of suitable roles that humanoids robots can take in the classroom. In the recent past, the focus has been on humanoids being used in student focused roles or as peer learners. Coupled with the seemingly absence of any case studies of educational robots in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or the Arab world, we present a study where we employed the Nao robot as a teaching assistant in a local primary school in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Nao robot was used to revise a topic in Mathematics and its efficacy in comparison to a human teaching assistant was measured through pre and post test scores, facial expressions and indirect verbal responses. Our results showed that while there no significant differences in test scores, the children were much more engaged when interacting with the Nao robot. We conclude with a positive outlook towards the implementation of humanoid robots in UAE classrooms.
KW - Arab School
KW - Nao
KW - Social Robots
KW - Teaching Assistants
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U2 - 10.1145/3369457.3369517
DO - 10.1145/3369457.3369517
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078694730
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 462
EP - 466
BT - Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction, OzCHI 2019
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction, OzCHI 2019
Y2 - 2 December 2019 through 5 December 2019
ER -