28.026 - Designing Robots for Children: Multisensory Interactions and Multimodal Assessments

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, a panel of researchers with multidisciplinary backgrounds will introduce the AERA community to the fast-growing research on educational robots for children. The panel will present the current status of educational robotic research, relevant theoretical frameworks, and technological advances involved in the design and assessment of child robot interactions. The audience will be invited to discuss with the panel designing robotic interventions that can support teachers and learners in classrooms and that can provide inclusive contexts to overcome the real-world constraints. We will also invite discussion on ways to facilitate cross-disciplinary research collaboration among educational researchers, engineers, and computer scientists for sustainable robotic research geared toward promoting children's intellectual, affective and social development.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Division C - Section 3b: Technology-Based Environments

Chair

• Yanghee Kim, Northern Illinois University

Papers

• Current Research on Sociable Educational Robots - Yanghee Kim, Northern Illinois University; Lixiao Huang; Mengxi Zhou, Indiana University

• Application of Embodied Cognition to Research on Child-Robot Interaction - Insook Han, Temple University; Michael Tscholl, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Social and Emotional Learning Through Child-Robot Interaction - Vinci Daro, Envision Learning Partners

• Computer Vision Affordances for Child-Robot Interaction - Aaron Kline, Stanford University

• Speech Recognition and Processing - Cynthia M. D'Angelo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Chad Dorsey, Concord Consortium

• Ethnographic Observation of Child-Robot Interaction - Laura Ruth Johnson, Northern Illinois University; Karla Vilchez Neal, Northern Illinois University