Working with a Social Robot in School: A Long-Term Real-World Unsupervised Deployment

Interactive learning technologies, such as robots, increasingly find their way into schools. However, more research is needed to see how children might work with such systems in the future. This paper presents the unsupervised, four month deployment of a Robot-Extended Computer Assisted Learning (RECAL) system with 61 children working in their own classroom. Using automatically collected quantitative data we discuss how their usage patterns and self-regulated learning process developed throughout the study. CCS CONCEPTS • Applied computing → Interactive learning environments; • Computer systems organization → Robotics; • Human-centered computing → Field studies; • Social and professional topics → Children; • Hardware → Sensors and actuators. Acm Reference Format: Daniel P. Davison, Frances M. Wijnen, Vicky Charisi, Jan van der Meij, Vanessa Evers, and Dennis Reidsma. 2020. Working with a Social Robot in School: A Long-Term Real-World Unsupervised Deployment. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’20), March 23-26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom.. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374803