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The Effects of a Robot Instructor’s Positive vs. Negative Feedbacks on Attraction and Acceptance towards the Robot in Classroom

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As robots are now being widely used as educational aids and assistants, it is crucial to understand the effects of robotic teaching assistants in classroom and how attraction and acceptance towards the robot are shaped. A 2 (type of instructor: human vs. robot) x 3 (feedback style: positive vs. negative vs. neutral) between-subjects experiment with six conditions was conducted to examine the effects of a robot instructor in classroom and the instructor’s feedbacks on students’ attraction and acceptance towards the given feedback. Results showed that feedback from a human instructor were more acceptable than feedback from a robot instructor. Students in the robot-instructor condition showed greater attraction towards the instructor when received a positive feedback, whereas students in the human-instructor condition did not report any difference in their attraction towards the instructor due to the feedback style. Both implications and limitations of the present study as well as guidelines for future research are discussed.

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  1. Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

    Eunil Park, Ki Joon Kim & Angel P. del Pobil

  2. Robotic Intelligence Laboratory, University Jaume-I, Castelló, Spain

    Angel P. del Pobil

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 W. Dayton St. Room 6381, 53706-1685, Madison, WI, USA

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  2. Canterbury University, HIT Lab NZ Old Math Building, Room 108, Private Bag 4800, 8140, Christchurch, New Zealand

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  3. Department of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Section Human-Technology Interaction, IPO 1.36, PO Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, (EEMCS). Chair: Human Media Interaction (HMI), University of Twente, PO Box 217, NL-7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

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  5. Department of Communication, Laboratories Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International), 2-2-2 Hikaridai, 619-0288, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, Japan

    Takayuki Kanda

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Park, E., Kim, K.J., del Pobil, A.P. (2011). The Effects of a Robot Instructor’s Positive vs. Negative Feedbacks on Attraction and Acceptance towards the Robot in Classroom. In: Mutlu, B., Bartneck, C., Ham, J., Evers, V., Kanda, T. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7072. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25504-5_14

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