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SUBMITTER: Baxter P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5441605 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baxter Paul P Ashurst Emily E Read Robin R Kennedy James J Belpaeme Tony T
PloS one 20170523 5
The benefit of social robots to support child learning in an educational context over an extended period of time is evaluated. Specifically, the effect of personalisation and adaptation of robot social behaviour is assessed. Two autonomous robots were embedded within two matched classrooms of a primary school for a continuous two week period without experimenter supervision to act as learning companions for the children for familiar and novel subjects. Results suggest that while children in both ...[more]