MobiAxis: An Embodied Learning Task for Teaching Multiplication with a Social Robot
This addresses the need for more embodied educational tasks for students using social robots, but it is incremental as it builds on existing robot-assisted learning without new empirical data.
The authors tackled the problem of underutilizing physical embodiment in social robots for education by proposing MobiAxis, a learning task using a Pepper robot to teach multiplication concepts along a number line, with a focus on technical and theoretical implementation as a position paper without reported results.
The use of robots in educational settings is growing increasingly popular. Yet, many of the learning tasks involving social robots do not take full advantage of their physical embodiment. MobiAxis is a proposed learning task which uses the physical capabilities of a Pepper robot to teach the concepts of positive and negative multiplication along a number line. The robot is embodied with a number of multi-modal socially intelligent features and behaviours which are designed to enhance learning. This paper is a position paper describing the technical and theoretical implementation of the task, as well as proposed directions for future studies.