Twelve semi-structured interviews with university students and lecturers identified twelve knowledge-based design requirements for tutoring GSRs across three knowledge types¶

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q2 i? A preregistered qualitative interview study with twelve participants identified twelve design requirements for tutoring GSRs, organized into self-, user-, and context-knowledge. → S. Vonschallen 2026

Evidence¶

S. Vonschallen 2026¶

S. Vonschallen, D. Oberle, T. Schmiedel, and F. Eyssel. (2026). Knowledge-Based Design Requirements for Generative Social Robots in Higher Education. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12873 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2602.12873

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Preregistered qualitative interview study (AsPredicted #251,937) with six students and six lecturers from Swiss and German universities, analyzed via Qualitative Content Analysis with 642 coded text segments. The authors report they "identified twelve design requirements across three knowledge types:self-knowledge", user-knowledge, and context-knowledge.

"Based on twelve semi-structured interviews with university students and lecturers, we identified twelve design requirements across three knowledge types:self-knowledge"

Discussion¶

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