Interactive Drama With Robots for Teaching Non-Technical Subjects

Sánchez, Flor Ángela Bravo; Correal, Alejandra María González; Guerrero, Enrique González

doi:10.5898/jhri.6.2.bravo

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“…The introduction of social robots in education has created new learning opportunities. Now, students can also learn by interacting with social robots that can assume the role of a tutor, partner, or learner in a learning activity [19][20][21]. Tutor robots are used to create learning experiences in which the robot should guide and monitor the student's learning process.…”

Section: Educational Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Robots with Storytelling and Drama Activities in Science Education

2021

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Storytelling and drama are well-known teaching tools that can be used throughout the curriculum for the active participation of students in their own learning process. The introduction of robots in storytelling and drama activities provides students with a meaningful, multisensory, hands-on learning experience. This paper explores the potential and challenges of using storytelling and drama activities with robot actors in science teaching. We present the lessons learned from two experiences of storytelling and drama activities with robots in science education. Observations revealed that this approach facilitates the development of science concepts, creates a rich context to foster skills in students, creates a positive classroom environment, and improves the students’ attention and motivation. Finally, it was identified that there is a need to design low-cost expressive actor robots that are easily customizable. Additionally, the need to develop multi-robot programming interfaces that facilitate the creation of scripts for robots and their programming is also shown.

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Section: Educational Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Robots with Storytelling and Drama Activities in Science Education

2021

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“…Impact factors of HRI concentration-training games usually contain human robot interactive distance, proxemic direction, robot size and appearance, and the environment [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 33 , 34 , 35 ]. The first two factors significantly influence people’s experiences with and perceptions of a human-like robot in HRI games [ 6 ].…”

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Impacts of Human Robot Proxemics on Human Concentration-Training Games with Humanoid Robots

Liu

Gao

2021

Healthcare

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The use of humanoid robots within a therapeutic role, that is, helping individuals with social disorders, is an emerging field, but it remains unexplored in terms of concentration training. To seamlessly integrate humanoid robots into concentration games, an investigation into the impacts of human robot interactive proxemics on concentration-training games is particularly important. In the case of an epidemic diffusion especially—for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic—HRI games may help in the therapeutic phase, significantly reducing the risk of contagion. In this paper, concentration games were designed by action imitation involving 120 participants to verify the hypothesis. Action-imitation accuracy, the assessment of emotional expression, and a questionnaire were compared with analysis of variance (ANOVA). Experimental results showed that a 2 m distance and left-front orientation for a human and a robot are optimal for human robot interactive concentration training. In addition, females worked better than males did in HRI imitation games. This work supports some valuable suggestions for the development of HRI concentration-training technology, involving the designs of friendlier and more useful robots, and HRI game scenarios.

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“…In each case, however, the artifice succeeds to the extent that movements are considered natural. Laban movement analysis (LMA), which allows one to characterize the effort required for different bodily movements, in addition to modeling the body's shape and use of space, has been used by Bravo Sánchez et al (2017) to support natural robot movements in short plays. Robots can enact artificial stories generated by an AI system, or they can interactively enact a human-crafted story.…”

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Creative Action at a Distance: A Conceptual Framework for Embodied Performance With Robotic Actors

Wicke

Veale

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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Acting, stand-up and dancing are creative, embodied performances that nonetheless follow a script. Unless experimental or improvised, the performers draw their movements from much the same stock of embodied schemas. A slavish following of the script leaves no room for creativity, but active interpretation of the script does. It is the choices one makes, of words and actions, that make a performance creative. In this theory and hypothesis article, we present a framework for performance and interpretation within robotic storytelling. The performance framework is built upon movement theory, and defines a taxonomy of basic schematic movements and the most important gesture types. For the interpretation framework, we hypothesise that emotionally-grounded choices can inform acts of metaphor and blending, to elevate a scripted performance into a creative one. Theory and hypothesis are each grounded in empirical research, and aim to provide resources for other robotic studies of the creative use of movement and gestures.

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Interactive Drama With Robots for Teaching Non-Technical Subjects

Cited by 26 publications

References 75 publications

Using Robots with Storytelling and Drama Activities in Science Education

Using Robots with Storytelling and Drama Activities in Science Education

Impacts of Human Robot Proxemics on Human Concentration-Training Games with Humanoid Robots

Creative Action at a Distance: A Conceptual Framework for Embodied Performance With Robotic Actors

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