{"title":"Can you teach me?: Children teaching new words to a robot in a book reading scenario","authors":"Angela Grimminger, K. Rohlfing","doi":"10.21437/WOCCI.2017-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In research on children’s language development, joint book reading is appreciated as being a situation beneficial for language learning. Motivated by this string of research, our aim was to explore whether the situation of joint book reading can be applied to a child–robot interaction. Before investigating whether and how this situation – when applied in child–robot interaction – can be used as a language learning scenario, the interactional requirements for a successful dialogue have to be studied. Our main aim in this paper is to present a study design for a child–robot interaction, in which a robot is introduced as a learner that acquires new color words, and the child is asked to teach the robot those words within a familiar interaction format of joint book reading. We then report the observations that we made in a single-case pilot study conducted with a 4;8year-old child, and discuss these observations in terms of how the robot’s interactional behavior needs to be shaped to successfully participate in the situation of joint book reading.","PeriodicalId":91973,"journal":{"name":"The ... Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The ... Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21437/WOCCI.2017-5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In research on children’s language development, joint book reading is appreciated as being a situation beneficial for language learning. Motivated by this string of research, our aim was to explore whether the situation of joint book reading can be applied to a child–robot interaction. Before investigating whether and how this situation – when applied in child–robot interaction – can be used as a language learning scenario, the interactional requirements for a successful dialogue have to be studied. Our main aim in this paper is to present a study design for a child–robot interaction, in which a robot is introduced as a learner that acquires new color words, and the child is asked to teach the robot those words within a familiar interaction format of joint book reading. We then report the observations that we made in a single-case pilot study conducted with a 4;8year-old child, and discuss these observations in terms of how the robot’s interactional behavior needs to be shaped to successfully participate in the situation of joint book reading.