Skusie¶
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Evidence · 6 claims (6 for) · 1 study (1 qualitative),q2· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 6 claims rest on one study
Description¶
Skusie is a bilingual humanoid social-robot system developed by Yanghee Kim and colleagues to mediate collaborative interaction and peer play among culturally and linguistically diverse kindergarten children.
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Claims¶
- Added cooperation prompts helped disagreeing pairs of children choose together [+W]
- Personalized, friend-like communication calling children by name invited even shy children to participate [+W]
- Flexible design with a human wizard anticipated kindergarteners' developing communication styles in robot-mediated interaction [+W]
- Anchoring activities in familiar contexts, such as photos of the children's own school, immediately engaged every child [+W]
- A bilingual robot speaking Spanish and English equally was essential for integrating Spanish and English speakers [+W]
- Wizard prompts that waited for delivery and a growing lexicon improved the robot's responsiveness over iterations [+W]
Related Products and Programmes¶
Key Sources¶
- 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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Skusie is a bilingual humanoid social-robot system developed by Yanghee Kim and colleagues to mediate collaborative interaction and peer play among culturally and linguistically diverse kindergarten children. |
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