Flexible design with a human wizard anticipated kindergarteners' developing communication styles in robot-mediated interaction¶

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q2 i? Children's developing language and unpredictable playful reactions required flexible design, addressed through a human wizard controlling the robot. → Yanghee Kim 2021

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Yanghee Kim 2021¶

Yanghee Kim, Sherry Marx, Hung Viet Pham, Tung Nguyen. (2021). Designing for robot-mediated interaction among culturally and linguistically diverse children. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10051-2

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Ethnographic design study of robot-mediated sessions with kindergarten pairs; the authors report that automatic speech recognition for kindergarten language did not yet exist, so they relied on a human wizard who "controlled the robot's actions."

"To address this situation, we used technical and pedagogical solution strategies. Technically, we relied on a human wizard who controlled the robot's actions."

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