Socially Assistive Robots: The Specific Case of the NAO

Robaczewski, Adam; Bouchard, Julie; Bouchard, Kévin; Gaboury, Sébastien

doi:10.1007/s12369-020-00664-7

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“…In our study, both students and teachers considered NAO to be engaging, friendly, and unintimidating, although this feedback must be considered in light of possible novelty effects of interacting with an advanced piece of technology like NAO (Robaczewski et al, 2020). Nevertheless, this result is also in line with previous research; in Spain, most K-12 students said that they felt comfortable interacting with the robot, and the younger ones wanted to be friends with it (Conde et al, 2016).…”

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Examining the Use of Robots as Teacher Assistants in UAE Classrooms: Teacher and Student Perspectives

Alhashmi¹,

Mubin

Baroud³

2021

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Aim/Purpose: This study sought to understand the views of both teachers and students on the usage of humanoid robots as teaching assistants in a specifically Arab context. Background: Social robots have in recent times penetrated the educational space. Although prevalent in Asia and some Western regions, the uptake, perception and acceptance of educational robots in the Arab or Emirati region is not known. Methodology: A total of 20 children and 5 teachers were randomly selected to comprise the sample for this study, which was a qualitative exploration executed using focus groups after an NAO robot (pronounced now) was deployed in their school for a day of revision sessions. Contribution: Where other papers on this topic have largely been based in other countries, this paper, to our knowledge, is the first to examine the potential for the integration of educational robots in the Arab context. Findings: The students were generally appreciative of the incorporation of humanoid robots as co-teachers, whereas the teachers were more circumspect, expressing some concerns and noting a desire to better streamline the process of bringing robots to the classroom. Recommendations for Practitioners: We found that the malleability of the robot’s voice played a pivotal role in the acceptability of the robot, and that generally students did well in smaller groups with the robot; teachers expressed concern that the children would become easily distracted should too many children be privy to one robot. Recommendation for Researchers: Our results provide valuable recommendations for researchers in the area. We believe, there needs to be continued efforts in devising suitable methodological assessment tools to evaluate student and teacher attitudes in the classroom particularly in the Arab world. We also advise researchers to focus on providing adaptive behavior in the context of educational robots. There are different distinct areas that need further clarifications and study based on our review. Impact on Society: On a wider scale, the findings of this paper have a huge implication for the educational technology as the integration of robotics in education is one of the emerging trends in the area, particularly in the UAE. This study allows to answer questions related to attitudes and perceptions of both teachers and students toward educational robots in the UAE. Future Research: Possible avenues of research in the area include focusing on the adaptive and natural behavior of robots in disciplines other than Mathematics as a means of successfully integrating robots in the classroom.

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confidence: 87%

Examining the Use of Robots as Teacher Assistants in UAE Classrooms: Teacher and Student Perspectives

Alhashmi¹,

Mubin

Baroud³

2021

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“…The Tibetan tap dance features regular knee swings and footsteps (Hannah and Red, 2020 ). In particular, the experimental robot selects the most popular bipedal robot in AI research: the NAO robot (Robaczewski et al, 2021 ), which also sees wide applications in teaching, smart home, entertainment, and competition. Because of the superior processing mechanism for joint and body balance, NAO can present various body postures and is an ideal platform for studying biped robot dance.…”

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Influence of Human–Computer Interaction-Based Intelligent Dancing Robot and Psychological Construct on Choreography

Yang

2022

Front. Neurorobot.

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To study the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on dancing robots in choreography, this paper introduces the biped-humanoid robot-imagined choreography model alongside the Psychological Space Construction (Psychological Construct) and Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). The proposed model is based on deep learning and imitating human thinking and is capable of imagining new dance elements. Finally, simulation experiments are designed to verify the model's effectiveness. Dance professionals are invited to evaluate the robot-imagined dance posture. The results show that the proposed model can vividly imitate human dancers and imagine and create new dance movements. The average basic feature retention and innovation scores of 30 new dance elements imagined on the L1 (head) are 7.29 and 7.64, respectively. By comparison, similar scores on 30 new elements in L2 (upper-body) are 7.73 and 7.40, respectively. Therefore, the proposed intelligent robot-imagined choreography model can help the dancing robot choreograph more finely and improve the choreography efficiency. The research results have significant practical value for dance teaching.

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“…Among studies involving humanoid robots, the use of NAO has become increasingly popular due to the robot's features and capabilities, that make it appropriate for experimental (especially clinical) researches. Robaczewski et al (2020) documents 70 experimental studies in which subjects are involved in a HRI with NAO. In particular, 26 studies are specifically designed to study social interactions between human and robots, and only 5 of them especially focus on communication as the main moderating feature.…”

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“…It seems reasonable to assume that IDR is not relevant for our experimental setting given that: (i) when subjects play their first round they are unaware of the delay between the first and second rounds; (ii) this delay is short (on average about 7 days); (iii) all subsequent rounds are played immediately one after the other in the experiment room. However, to address potential biases driven by this issue, in Section 6 we also control for a measure of intertemporal discount rate.10 The Robot was NAO, a humanoid robot produced by Softbank Robotics (see FigureD4in Appendix D for a picture,Gelin (2018) andRobaczewski et al (2020) for references); human partners were Ph.D. students recruited and trained for this task.…”

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If it Looks like a Human and Speaks like a Human ... Dialogue and cooperation in human-robot interactions

Maggioni¹,

Rossignoli²

2021

Preprint

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This paper presents the results of a behavioral experiment conducted between February 2020 and March 2021 at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan Campus, in which students were matched with either a human or a humanoid robotic partner to play an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. The results of a Logit estimation procedure show that subjects are more likely to cooperate with human rather than with robotic partners; that they are more likely to cooperate after receiving a dialogic verbal reaction following a sub-optimal social outcome; and that the effect of the verbal reaction is not dependent on the nature of the partner. Our findings provide new evidence on the effects of verbal communication in strategic frameworks. The results are robust to the exclusion of students of Economics-related subjects, to the inclusion of a set of psychological and behavioral controls, to the way subjects perceive robots' behavior, and to potential gender biases in human-human interactions.

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Socially Assistive Robots: The Specific Case of the NAO

Cited by 56 publications

References 78 publications

Examining the Use of Robots as Teacher Assistants in UAE Classrooms: Teacher and Student Perspectives

Examining the Use of Robots as Teacher Assistants in UAE Classrooms: Teacher and Student Perspectives

Influence of Human–Computer Interaction-Based Intelligent Dancing Robot and Psychological Construct on Choreography

If it Looks like a Human and Speaks like a Human ... Dialogue and cooperation in human-robot interactions

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