Personalized, friend-like communication calling children by name invited even shy children to participate¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Calling children by name in a friendly, inviting voice made interactions more natural and engaging and invited shy children to participate equally. → Yanghee Kim 2021

Evidence¶

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

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Qualitative findings from session transcripts and field notes report that children were surprised and delighted to hear Skusie use their names and, after repeated interactions, responded to it as they would a friend; the authors state calling children by name "invited even shy children to participate equally in activities."

"Having Skuzie call the children by name and adding phrases to its repertoire that kept children's attention to the activity made the interactions more natural and engaging."

Discussion¶

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