Research project Interaction with social robots for education
Learning with robots? The project aims to explore how we can use and benefit from human-robot interaction in adult education in Sweden, with special focus on students with Swedish as a second language.
The project will contribute to our understanding of various aspects of using human-robot interaction (HRI) in adult education, particularly for students with Swedish as a second language. One of our aims is to show if and how students’ learning procedures may be supported or challenged in interaction with the robots. The project will also contribute to the knowledge of, and possibilities of using educational robots to help meet the increasing social demands for working age adults to develop new competencies and skills by participating in Vocational Education and Training, VET.
Title: Interaction with social robots for education: Robot-assisted learning for students with diverse language backgrounds
Project description
Method
The project will be conducted over 3 years, collecting and analyzing data from vocational education and training (VET) courses. We will first collect ethnographic observational data from VET classroom interactions. Based on these observations, HRI scenarios will be designed in which both native speakers and second language speakers of Swedish engage with a social robot in content-based tasks from VET courses.
We will compare the data collected from interaction among human participants (teacher-learner and learner-learner) with that of learners with social robots. With interviews and surveys on the one hand and using ethnomethodology and multimodal conversation analysis (EMC A) on the other hand, we will show if and how students’ learning procedures may be supported or challenged in interaction with the robots.
Project members
Project managers
Ali Reza Majlesi
Senior lecturer
Members
Gustav Lymer
Senior lecturer
Catrin Norrby
Prodekanus, Professor
Olov Engwall
Professor
Silvia Kunitz
Universitetslektor