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To add a humorous interface to online quizzes for elementary school students, we demonstrate a video of a humanoid robot as a quiz presenter. The quiz was a fun way to learn various related knowledge starting with eating habits. The purpose of using a robot was to make the quiz interesting for students of all grades in elementary school and for them to enjoy the quiz with their parents. The video was a short quiz that lasted a few minutes wherein the robot interacts with a human voice, presenting the viewer with a multiple-choice quiz.
We distributed one robot-video quiz every week for six months, obtaining the following results. The number of students who responded to the quiz decreased sharply in the first month and stabilized at ~10% of the total number of students in the school. At first, most of the comments were about the quiz’s difficulty, but gradually, most of the comments became about quiz’s contents, suggesting the viewers established interest in the quiz topic. Many comments about the robot as a unique entity with its personality suggest that the viewers empathetically accepted the robot’s existence.
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This work was partly funded by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 19K02806 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
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Matsuura, S., Kon, S., Kuwano, S. (2021). Communication Robot as a Weekly Online Quiz Presenter. In: Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Media, Learning and Assistive Environments. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12769. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78095-1_12
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