I’m proud to be part of the Sorocova research team. Since 2021, we have been investigating how a social robot can support primary math education. We work together in a consortium (see below on the poster, sorry it is in Dutch), involving 6 schools in the Netherlands, and tested child-robot interactions with 130 children. We compared different conditions of social and educational robot behavior. Read more about this in our papers. The publication ‘Design Specifications for a Social Robot Math Tutor’ was awarded the second prize for ‘Best Studies Paper Award’ at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction ’23. You can read more about the research on the project website.
Elloumi, L., Bossema, M., De Droog, S. M., Smakman, M. H., Van Ginkel, S., Ligthart, M. E., … & Allouch, S. B. (2022, August). Exploring requirements and opportunities for social robots in primary mathematics education. In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 316-322). IEEE.
Ligthart, M. E., de Droog, S. M., Bossema, M., Elloumi, L., Hoogland, K., Smakman, M. H., … & Ben Allouch, S. (2023, March). Design Specifications for a Social Robot Math Tutor. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 321-330).
