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A Robot Math Tutor that Gives Feedback

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We report on the exploratory design and study of a robot math tutor that can provide feedback on specific errors made by children solving basic addition and subtraction problems up to 100. We discuss two interaction design patterns, one for speech recognition of answers when children think aloud, and one for providing error-specific feedback. We evaluate our design patterns and whether our feedback mechanism motivates children and improves their performance at primary schools with children (\(N=41\)) aged 7–9. We did not find any motivational or learning effects of our feedback mechanism but lessons learnt include that the robot can execute our interaction design patterns autonomously, and advanced algorithms for error classification and adaptation to children’s performance levels in our feedback mechanism are needed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This is task CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.5 in the Common Core Standard for Grade 2 (age 7–8) http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/2/NBT/B/5/.

  2. 2.

    The following 7 categories are used: “Passing tens” (e.g., \(7 + 6\)), “Adding tens and units” (e.g., \(37 + 31\)), “Adding tens and units, passing tens” (e.g., \(67 + 14\)), “Through tens” (e.g., \(12 - 5\)), “Remove tens and add later” (e.g., \(53 - 2\)), “Tens minus tens and units” (e.g., \(38 - 17\)), and “Tens and units, through tens” (e.g., \(46 - 18\)).

  3. 3.

    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5cPaZIW8M for a video of the dance.

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  1. Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Koen V. Hindriks

  2. Department of Computing Science, Delft, The Netherlands

    Sander Liebens

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  1. Robotics Lab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

    Miguel A. Salichs

  2. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. Faculty of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

    Emilia Ivanova Barakova

  4. Mechanical & Industrial, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    John-John Cabibihan

  5. Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Alan R. Wagner

  6. Robotics Lab - Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

    Álvaro Castro-González

  7. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Hongsheng He

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Hindriks, K.V., Liebens, S. (2019). A Robot Math Tutor that Gives Feedback. In: Salichs, M., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_56

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