Designing a Tutorial for a Human-Human-Robot Learning Environment: A Design Case

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Abstract

For students to successfully navigate new computer supported collaborative learning environments tutorials often play a critical role. Through design-based research methods, we investigated the principles of effective tutorial design for human-human-computer interactions between a teachable robot and student dyads. We describe three iterations of a tutorial composed of instructions, a video, and practice. We detail the iterative changes and justifications for our decisions, arriving at three general principles that guided our development: instructions need to be said by the robot, a video should include context-specific modeling, and practice should be scaffolded rather than scripted. We believe these principles, despite being derived from a specific context, can be applied elsewhere when interacting with other intelligent agents.

Authors

• Nikki G. Lobczowski, McGill University

• Maria Xu, University of Pittsburgh

• Yuya Asano, University of Pittsburgh

• Teresa Davison, University of Pittsburgh

• Tristan Maidment, University of Pittsburgh

• Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh

• Erin A. Walker, University of Pittsburgh

• Timothy James Nokes-Malach, University of Pittsburgh